List of town tramway systems in France
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This is a list of town tramway systems in France by région. It includes all tram systems, past and present.
[edit] Alsace
[edit] 67 Bas-Rhin
- Strasbourg Horse traction 22 July 1878 - 1899*. Steam Traction 1883 - 12 August 1926. Electric traction, May 1895 - 30 April 1960. Reintroduced 25 November 1994.
- notes on the Strasbourg System : A suburban branch [Rhinau, 2 km] was operated as long as the 2 February 1926 with one horse car. Part of the suburban system was ceded to the State of Bade in 1922, which, after a merger with the "Lahrer Strassenbahn", formed the "Mittelbadische Eisenbahn AG". A branch line of Steam Railway (Rosheim - St. Nabor) was ceded by the department to the company of trolleys in 1924, but it was never electrified.
[edit] 68 Haut-Rhin
- Colmar - Electric traction, 16 March 1902 - 31 January 1960
- Mulhouse - Steam traction, 1 October 1882 - 1894. Electric traction, 1894 - 2 May 1956. Reintroduced on 13 May 2006.
- Ribeauvillé - Horse Traction ? - ?. Steam Traction ? - 1937. This was mainly a Railroad Station to Town line.
- Turckheim – Trois Épis - Electric traction, 3 June 1899 - 1 April 1937
[edit] Aquitaine
[edit] 24 Dordogne
[edit] 33 Gironde
- Bordeaux Horse traction, 4 May 1880 - 1901. Electric traction, 17 February 1900 - 8 December 1958. Reintroduced 23 December 2003.
[edit] 40 Landes
[edit] 47 Lot-et-Garonne
[edit] 64 Pyrénées-Atlantiques
- Bayonne - Anglet - Biarritz (B.A.B.) - Steam Traction, 2 June 1877 - 23 April 1922. Electric Traction, 11 July 1922 - 31 December 1952
- Bayonne - Lycée - Biarritz (B.L.B.) - Steam Traction, 18 October 1888 - 31 January 1914 - Electric traction, 1 February 1914 - 1 October 1948
- Bayonne - Biarritz - Hendaye (V.F.D.M.) - Electric Traction, 3 December 1917 - 31 January 1939
- Hendaye - Horse Traction, 1906 - 1907. Electric traction, 15 August 1908 - 1 January 1937
- Pau - Electric traction, 8 September 1900 - 1929
[edit] Auvergne
[edit] 03 Allier
[edit] 15 Cantal
[edit] 43 Haute-Loire
- Le Puy - Electric Traction - 12 November 1896 - 4 August 1914
[edit] 63 Puy-de-Dôme
- La Bourboule - Electric Traction - 1904 - 1914 - Note: This line had only 470 meters (0,3 miles) in length and one car
- Clermont-Ferrand - Electric Traction - 7 Jan 1890 - 17 Mar 1956 - Note: First Electric System in France
[edit] Basse-Normandie
[edit] 14 Calvados
- Caen - Electric Traction - 21 December 1901 - 1937
- Deauville - Horse Traction - October 1876 - approximatively 1905
[edit] 50 Manche
- Avranches - Electric Traction - April 1907 - 2 August 1914
- Cherbourg - Steam Traction - 22 May 1897 - 2 August 1914 - Electric Traction - 1910 - 1944
[edit] 61 Orne
[edit] Bourgogne
[edit] 21 Côte-d'Or
[edit] 58 Nièvre
[edit] 71 Saône-et-Loire
[edit] 89 Yonne
Name of System | Location | Traction Type |
Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
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Dijon | Electric | 1 Jan 1895 | 1 Dec 1961 |
[edit] Bretagne
[edit] 22 Côtes-d'Armor
[edit] 29 Finistère
[edit] 35 Ille-et-Vilaine
[edit] 56 Morbihan
Name of System | Location | Traction Type |
Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
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Brest | Electric | 1898 | 1945 | Reintroduction planned for 2010. | |
Lorient | Electric | 1901 | 1944 | ||
Saint-Malo - Saint-Servan | Electric | 1927 | 1948 |
[edit] Centre
[edit] 18 Cher
[edit] 28 Eure-et-Loir
[edit] 36 Indre
[edit] 37 Indre-et-Loire
[edit] 41 Loir-et-Cher
[edit] 45 Loiret
- Blois - Electric traction, 1910 - 1934
- Bourges - Electric traction, 1898 -1949
- Orléans - Horse traction 6 May 1877 - ?. Electric traction, 28 June 1899 - 31 March 1938. Reintroduced 20 November 2000.
- Tours - Electric traction, 1900 - 1949
[edit] Champagne-Ardenne
[edit] 08 Ardennes
[edit] 10 Aube
[edit] 51 Marne
- Châlons-en-Champagne - Electric traction, 1897 - 1938
- Reims - Electric traction, 1900 - 1939 ; a new project is currently run for 2010
[edit] 52 Haute-Marne
[edit] Corse (Corsica)
[edit] 2A Corse-du-Sud
Name of System | Location | Traction Type |
Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
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Ajaccio | Horse | ? | ? | ||
(Electric) | Construction started, not completed (ca. 1914). |
[edit] 2B Haute-Corse
No tramways.
[edit] Franche-Comté
[edit] 25 Doubs
[edit] 39 Jura
[edit] 70 Haute-Saône
[edit] 90 Territoire de Belfort
- Beaucourt - Electric traction, 1904 - 1935
- Belfort - Electric traction, 29 May 1898 - 1952
- Besançon - Electric traction, 21 March 1897 - 24 December 1952
[edit] Haute-Normandie
[edit] 27 Eure
[edit] 76 Seine-Maritime
- Elbeuf - Electric traction, 1898 - 1926.
- Eu – Le Tréport - Electric traction, 1902 - 1935.
- Le Havre - Electric traction, 1894 - 1951 (See Tramway du Havre).
- Rouen - Horse traction, 29 December 1877 - ?. Electric traction, 1896 - 28 February 1953. Reintroduced 17 December 1994 (See Tramway de Rouen).
[edit] Île-de-France
[edit] 75 Paris
[edit] 77 Seine-et-Marne
[edit] 78 Yvelines
[edit] 91 Essonne
[edit] 92 Hauts-de-Seine
[edit] 93 Seine-Saint-Denis
[edit] 94 Val-de-Marne
[edit] 95 Val-d'Oise
- Fontainebleau - Electric traction, 29 September 1896 - 31 December 1953 (See Tramway de Fontainebleau).
- Melun - Electric traction, 1901 - 1914
- Paris - Horse traction 1855 - ? Electric traction introduced 1895. Final closures: within Paris, 15 March 1937; suburbs 14 August 1938. Reintroduced (suburbs) 6 July 1992 (see Tramways in Paris).
- Versailles - Horse traction, 11 November 1876 - 1896. Electric traction, 1896 - 3 March 1957. (See Tramway de Versailles)
[edit] Languedoc-Roussillon
[edit] Aude
[edit] 30 Gard
Name of System | Location | Traction Type |
Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aigues-Vives | Steam | ? | ? |
[edit] 34 Hérault
[edit] 48 Lozère
[edit] 66 Pyrénées-Orientales
- Montpellier - Electric traction, 1 January 1898 - 31 January 1949. Reintroduced 1 July 2000.
- Nîmes - Horse traction, 1880 - 1900. Electric traction, 1899 - 1950.
- Perpignan - Electric traction, September 1900 - October 1955
- Sète - Electric traction, 1901 - 1935
[edit] Limousin
[edit] 19 Corrèze
[edit] 23 Creuse
[edit] 87 Haute-Vienne
[edit] Lorraine
[edit] 54 Meurthe-et-Moselle
[edit] 55 Meuse
[edit] 57 Moselle
[edit] 88 Vosges
- Épinal - Electric traction, 1906 - 1914
- Forbach - Electric traction, 1912 - 1950
- Hagondange - Maizières-lès-Metz - Electric traction, 1913 - 1964
- Longwy - Electric traction, 1902 - 1935
- Metz - Electric traction, 1902 - 1948
- Nancy - Horse traction 12 August 1874 - 1903?. Electric traction, 1898 - 2 December 1958.
- Novéant (-sur-Moselle) - Electric traction, 1911 - 1933
- Saint-Avold - Electric traction, 1910 - 1940
- Thionville - Electric traction, 9 May 1912 - 22 September 1952
[edit] Midi-Pyrénées
[edit] 09 Ariège
[edit] 12 Aveyron
[edit] 31 Haute-Garonne
- Toulouse - Horse traction, 31 July 1887 - ?. Electric traction, May 1906 - 7 July 1957. Reintroduction planned for 2009.
[edit] 32 Gers
[edit] 46 Lot
[edit] 65 Hautes-Pyrénées
[edit] 81 Tarn
Name of System | Location | Traction Type |
Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
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Albi | Steam | ? | ? | ||
petrol (gasoline) | ? | ? | |||
Albi - Valence d'Albigeois | Steam | ? | ? | ||
petrol (gasoline) | ? | ? | |||
Albi - Alban | Steam | ? | ? | ||
petrol (gasoline) | ? | ? |
[edit] 82 Tarn-et-Garonne
[edit] Nord-Pas de Calais
[edit] 59 Nord
[edit] 62 Pas-de-Calais
- Armentières - Electric traction, 1901 - 1914
- Boulogne (-sur-Mer) - Electric traction, 1897 - 1951
- Calais - Electric traction, 1906 - 1940
- Cambrai - Electric traction, 1903 - 1914
- Cassel - Electric traction, 1900 - 1938
- Douai - Electric traction, 1898 - 1950
- Dunkerque - Horse traction, 1 June 1880 - ?. Accumulator (storage battery) traction, 1899 - 1903. Electric traction, 1903 - 3 November 1952.
- Étaples – Le Touquet-Paris-Plage - Electric traction, 1900 - 1935
- Lille - Horse traction 7 June 1874 - ?. Electric traction 1900 - 29 January 1966.
- Maubeuge - Electric traction, 16 March 1902 - 1951
- Valenciennes - Steam traction 1 January 1881 - 1914. Electric traction, 1914 - 2 July 1966. Reintroduced 3 July 2006 (see Tramway de Valenciennes).
[edit] Pays de la Loire
[edit] 44 Loire-Atlantique
[edit] 49 Maine-et-Loire
[edit] 53 Mayenne
[edit] 72 Sarthe
[edit] 85 Vendée
- Angers - Electric traction, 21 May 1896 - May 1949. Reintroduction planned for 2009.
- Le Mans - Electric traction, 1897 - 1947. Reintroduction planned for 2008.
- Nantes - Compressed-air traction 13 February 1879 - 1917. Electric traction, 1913 - 25 January 1958. Reintroduced 7 January 1985 (See Tramway de Nantes).
- Les Sables d'Olonne - Electric traction, 1898 - 1925
[edit] Picardie
[edit] 02 Aisne
[edit] 60 Oise
[edit] 80 Somme
- Amiens - Electric traction, 1899 - 1940
- Tergnier - Electric traction, 1910 - 1939
- Saint-Quentin - Electric traction, 6 March 1899 - 27 May 1956
[edit] Poitou-Charentes
[edit] 16 Charente
[edit] 17 Charente-Maritime
[edit] 79 Deux-Sèvres
[edit] 86 Vienne
[edit] Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
[edit] 04 Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
[edit] 05 Hautes-Alpes
[edit] 06 Alpes-Maritimes
[edit] 13 Bouches-du-Rhône
[edit] 83 Var
[edit] 84 Vaucluse
- Avignon - Electric traction, 1901 - 1932
- Cannes - Electric traction, 1899 - 1933 (See Tramway de Cannes).
- La Ciotat - Electric traction, 1935 - 1955
- Marseille Horse traction 21 January 1876 - ?. Steam traction, 1892 - ?. Electric traction introduced 1900. Closed 28 January 2004 for reconstruction; reopening planned for 2007.
- Marseille - Aix-en-Provence - Electric traction, 1903 - 1948
- Nice - Horse traction, 27 February 1878. Electric traction, 1900 - 10 January 1953. Reintroduced 2007. (See Tramway de Nice et du Littoral and Tramway de Nice).
- Toulon Horse traction, July 1886 - ?. Electric traction, July 1897 - 15 April 1954. Reintroduction planned for 2009.
[edit] Rhône-Alpes
[edit] 01 Ain
[edit] 07 Ardèche
[edit] 26 Drôme
[edit] 38 Isère
[edit] 42 Loire
- Saint-Etienne Steam traction 4 December 1881 - 1912. Electric traction, 17 April 1897 -. Last tramway, other than Line 4 (current), closed 20 June 1952. (See Tramway de Saint Etienne.)
- Roanne - Electric traction, 1901 - 1935
- Saint-Chamond - Electric traction, 1906 - 1931
[edit] 69 Rhône
[edit] 73 Savoie
Name of System | Location | Traction Type |
Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
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Aix-les-Bains | Compressed Air | 18 Apr 1897 | 1908 | Permission for electrification refused by local authority. | |
♦ Aix-les-Bains - Petit Port (Port-de-Cornin) | Compressed Air | ? | ? | ||
♦ Aix-les-Bains - Grésy-sur-Aix | Compressed Air | ? | ? | ||
♦ Aix-les-Bains - Mont Revard | Steam | 1893 | 1935 | Abt rack system. |
[edit] 74 Haute-Savoie
- Annemasse - Steam traction, 22 October 1883 - 1902. Electric traction, 2 January 1902 - 31 December 1958. Operated by Genève (Geneva), Switzerland, tramway undertaking. International tramway service suspended 2 (?) September 1939 because of World War II, not restored.
- Évian-les-Bains - Electric traction, 1898 - 1908
- Grenoble - Electric traction, 17 April 1897 - 1 October 1952, reintroduced 5 September 1987
- Lyon - Urban: Horse traction 21 June 1897 - ?. Steam traction, 1888 - ?. Electric traction, 26 August 1894 - 30 January 1956. Reintroduced 23 December 2000.
- Moûtiers - Salins (-les-Thermes) - Electric traction, 1899 - 1929
- Valence (Drôme) - Saint-Peray - Electric traction, 1927 - 1950