Chambery steam tram

Chambery steam tram (Tramway de Chambéry)
Route
Route length:	31 km
Gauge :	600 mm ( narrow gauge )
Owner:	• Société Anonyme des Tramways de Savoie (1892-1910) • Conseil General de la Savoie (1910-1932)
Operator:	• Société Anonyme des Tramways de Savoie (1892-1910) • Conseil général de la Savoie ( provisional 1910-1914) • Régie Départementale des tramways de la Savoie (1914-1920) • Chemins de fer Départementaux d'intérêt local de la Savoie (1920-1932)
Legend 11 Le Bourget-du-Lac 1910-1932 5 La Motte-Servolex 1892-1932 0 Chambery 1892-1932 4th Cognin, Pont Saint Charles 1906-1910 7th Challes 1897-1930 9 Saint Jeoire 1905-1929 11 Chignin 1905-1907

The steam tram Chambéry ( French Tramway de Chambéry) was from 1892-1932 an up to 31 km long narrow gauge steam tram network with 33 stops on four lines in Chambéry in Savoy in France .

history

Town hall square in La Motte-Servolex

Steam tram in Le Bourget-du-Lac

The Chambéry tram was a route network that was arranged in a star around the Chambéry station in Savoie. It was created at the suggestion of the entrepreneur Philippe Cartier-Million from La Motte-Servolex . He chose a gauge of 600 mm, which was unusually narrow at the time , for which he was inspired by the Decauville railway at the Paris World Exhibition (1889) . In October 1890 he received the concession for the line between Chambéry and La Motte-Servolex and founded the Société anonyme des Tramways de Savoie . The first tram was put into operation on this line in August 1892. Three more lines were opened until 1910: in 1897 to Challes-les-Eaux, 1906 to Cognin and 1910 to Le Bourget-du-Lac . In the same year the company filed for bankruptcy. The route network was taken over by the General Council of Savoie, who reorganized the network and operated it first through an escrow account and then through a Régie Départementale . A decree of February 8, 1913 authorized the Régie Départementale des tramways de la Savoie to take over the operation of the network under "direct management". In 1929 the section between Challes-les-Eaux and Saint-Jeoire-Prieuré was closed, whereupon the tram again ended at its terminus in front of the spa casino, which had existed until 1905.

Vétra-O-Bus and & Corpet-Louvet steam tram meet around 1929 Saint-Jeoire-Prieuré

Due to increasing wear and tear and falling traffic, it was finally shut down in 1932 and replaced by a trolleybus between Chambéry and Chignin and by buses on the other lines. The trolleybus was tested in July 1930 between the Chambéry and Chignin stops and finally put into operation three months later on October 6, 1930. This led to the shutdown of the steam train on the line to Challésienne. The locomotives were mothballed in the Chambéry depot. The rails were dismantled and stored on the west side of the hangar of the Challes-les-Eaux airfield and then sold to the Barlet-Ravier company from Chambéry on January 21, 1931. The line to Challes-les-Eaux was shut down by decree of October 1, 1931.

The decision to completely shut down the remaining line to Le Bourget-du-Lac was made on September 28, 1932 and came into force on January 1, 1933.

Rail vehicles

Challes-les-Eaux No. 1 box locomotive from Vve. Corpet - L. Louvet No. 673 from 1896

• No. 1, C 2nt, delivered February 15, 1896 by Corpet-Louvet, No. 673, Challes-les-Eaux
• No. 3, C 2nt with two driver's cabs, delivered on July 30, 1894 by Corpet-Louvet, No. 623, La Motte Servolex , curb weight 11.280 t
• No. 5, C 2nt, supplied by Buffaud & Robatel in 1905 , empty weight 10 tons
• No. 6, C 2nt, supplied by Buffaud & Robatel in 1905, empty weight 10 tons
• B 2nt, Weidknecht, No. 552, SLM boiler no. 553
• B 2nt, Weidknecht, No. 553, SLM boiler no. 5
• C 2nt, Buffeaux & Robatel, empty weight 9 t
• B 2nt, Orenstein & Koppel
• 2 railcars with 2 axles
• 2 railcars with bogies
• Open and closed bogie passenger cars and freight cars

Individual evidence

1. ^ Marc-Andre Dubout: Les tramways de la Savoie.
2. ↑ FACS: List des chemins de fer secondaires: Savoie (73)
3. ^ FACS: Les chemins de fer secondaires de France - 73 département de Savoie lire en ligne.
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Johannès Pallière, Le lac du Bourget: Lac majeur de France, La Fontaine de Siloé, 2003. ISBN 9782842062347 . Pp. 333-334.
5. ↑ Jean-Noël Violette, Challes, avec deux ailes: 1913-2013 Cent ans d'aéronautique à Challes-les-Eaux, Varennes-Vauzelles, Bleu Ciel Éditions, December 15, 2012. ISBN 978-2-918015-16-1 , P. 2.
6. ↑ Pierre Messiez: Petits trains de Savoie et de Haute-Savoie: Le Siècle des Petits Trains. Tours, Éditions Cénomane / La Vie du Rail, October 1996, ISBN 2 905596 54 6 and ISBN 2 902 808 62 3 .
7. ↑ Maurice Vincent: Des Transports de Savoie (1837-1965): Transports en commun de l'agglomération chambérienne et tramways de Savoie. Montmélian, 1990.
8. ↑ René Rey and Bernard Rozé: Les Tramways départementaux de la Savoie: (étoile de Chambery). Chemins de Fer Régionaux et Urbains, No. 103, 1971.
9. ↑ Le carnet du CFC (Chemin de Fer des Chanterianes): Les tramways de la Savoie.