Presentation

Imagine Vosges such as you cannot see them today: massifs little afforested and covered with farms where they cultivated " a little of everything ", industrious valleys with the multiple fireplaces, active villages where the population was however still poor. It is Vosges of the beginning of XX ° century, that knew the arrival of the train. A wonderful invention which allowed to divide time of route by 20 and the costs of the transport by two compared with the diligence.

Active villages, factories, farms in " the tops " and the quite new railroad!

Today, I propose you a reconstruction of one of the lines from Vosge, in the time of the vapor, by 1920 : the line Epinal, Remiremont, Bussang.

Put in service in 1864 for its part Epinal-Remiremont, the route was finished only in 1876, date of the inauguration of the station of Bussang.

Today, only the line of Epinal to Remiremont remains in service, the antenna of Bussang having been closed in 1989.