Line 80 is a
Luxembourg
Luxembourg ( ; lb, Lëtzebuerg ; french: link=no, Luxembourg; german: link=no, Luxemburg), officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, ; french: link=no, Grand-Duché de Luxembourg ; german: link=no, Großherzogtum Luxemburg is a small lan ...
ian
railway line connecting
Rodange to
Belgium
Belgium, ; french: Belgique ; german: Belgien officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to th ...
. It is designated
Chemins de Fer Luxembourgeois, but predominantly operated by
NMBS/SNCB
french: Société nationale des chemins de fer belgesgerman: Nationale Gesellschaft der Belgischen Eisenbahnen
, type = Statutory corporation
, industry = Rail Transport
, foundation = 1926
, founder = Government o ...
. The services overlap with those designated as
Line 70
Line 70 is a railway line connecting Luxembourg City to the south-west of Luxembourg, and on to Belgium and France. The terminus at the north-eastern end is Luxembourg railway station, whilst the terminals at the south are the French town of Longu ...
. On the Belgian side of the border the routes are numbered in the NMBS/SNCB series.
*
Line 165 Libramont - Virton - Y Aubange - Athus
* Line 165/1 Y Aubange - Frontière RFNL (Rodange)
*
Line 167 (Arlon) - Y. Autelbas - Athus - Frontière RFNL (Rodange)
The routes are all
electrified at 25 kV using
OHL OHL or Ohl may refer to:
Initialisms
*Latvian Hockey Higher League, known in Latvian as the ''Optibet hokeja līga''
*Oberste Heeresleitung, the Supreme Army Command of Germany in World War I
*Obrascón Huarte Lain, a Spanish construction company
* ...
cf NMBS/SNCB's normal 3 kV DC OHL. This requires NMBS/SNCB to use
Class 41xx DMUs.
The following passenger services operate on the line, as of 2019:
* Arlon - MeAthus - Aubange - Virton - Libramont hourly on weekdays by SNCB/NMBS
* Luxembourg - Rodange - Athus 2 trains per hour every day (reduced on Sunday) by CFL
* Virton - Halanzy - Aubange - Rodange 2 pairs of trains in rush hours to connect to Longwy - Luxembourg services
Stations
* Arlon (Belgium)
* Messancy (Belgium)
* Athus (Belgium)
*
Rodange
* Aubange (Belgium)
* Halanzy (Belgium)
* Virton (Belgium)
References
Railway lines in Luxembourg
Cross-border railway lines in Belgium
Cross-border railway lines in Luxembourg
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