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Plan of the Tramway de Fontainebleau in 1940 Place Denecourt (currently Napoléon-Bonaparte) with the tramway in the foreground and the Hôtel de l'Aigle Noir in the background. Tramway de Fontainebleau was the public transit system in Fontainebleau, France from 1896 until 1953. At its greatest extent the network comprised three lines.
Clermont-Ferrand's modern transport system, the Clermont-Ferrand tramway (opened: 2006), is a Translohr system rather than a traditional rail-based tram system. Évian-les-Bains: Electric 1898 1908 Grenoble: Electric 17 Apr 1897 31 Aug 1952 Gauge: 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 + 3 ⁄ 8 in) [1] Grenoble tramway: Electric 5 Sep 1987 [1] La Bourboule ...
Several French cities were equipped with horse-tram networks towards the end of the 19th century. In Paris, Tramways Sud operated horse trams from 1875 to 1901. [5] In Marseille, horse trams operated by Compagnie Générale Française de Tramways entered service in 1876 on a number of routes including the Canebière. [6]
The tramway in Nice. Trams in Nice was the first-generation tramway system serving the city of Nice, France, which operated from 27 February 1879 to 10 January 1953.. The creation of the Compagnie des Tramways de Nice et du Littoral (TNL) was encouraged by the rapid rise in population of Nice and surrounding towns and villages.
France’s oldest city has a rich history as a prosperous trading port dating back to ancient Greece. The cosmopolitan coastal city on the Gulf de Lyon hosts sun, sea, creative culinary scenes and ...
Trams in Caen was the former public transit system serving the city of Caen, France.The original tramway network, operated by Compagnie des tramways électriques de Caen opened in 1901 and closed on 23 January 1937, after which buses took over as the primary means of public transport in Caen (until the 2002 opening of Caen Guided Light Transit replaced by the Caen tramway in 2019).
From 1885 to 1940, the city of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia operated one of the largest cable systems in the world, at its peak running 592 trams on 75 kilometres (47 mi) of track, though during its heyday, Sydney's network was larger, [17] with about 1,600 cars in service at any one time at its peak during the 1930s (cf. about 500 trams in ...
The only other Croatian city with trams still in operation is Osijek. The first tram route commenced in 1884 (connecting the railway station and city square) and trams have been running since. Between 2006 and 2007, the trams were refurbished and modernised. Two lines presently exist, with another two extensions planned, doubling the network ...