Angers tram

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Angers tram
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Basic information
Country France
city Angers
opening June 25, 2011
operator Keolis Angers
Infrastructure
Route length 12.3 km
Gauge 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system 750 V DC overhead line /
APS power rail
Stops 25th
business
Lines 1
Clock in the peak hours 6 minutes
Cruising speed 20 km / h
vehicles 17 Alstom Citadis 302
Top speed 70 km / h
statistics
Passengers 32,500 per day (June 2012)
Catchment area 60,000
Network plan
Network plan line A

The Angers tram ( French: Tramway d'Angers ) is a tram system in the French city ​​of Angers . The first line A - operated by Keolis Angers - went into operation on June 25, 2011. The tram replaces various bus routes, while others have been adapted to the changed conditions. After a purchase agreement signed in November 2006, Alstom supplied the rolling stock. A second stretch is under construction. It should connect the University's Belle-Beille campus to the west with Monplaisir and be completed in 2022.Template: future / in 2 years

history

Trams at the Gare Saint-Laud stop (early 1900s)

Angers already owned an extensive tram network with a gauge of 1000 mm from May 1896 to May 1949 , which in 1913 - with a population of 84,000 - consisted of eight lines and was operated by the "Compagnie des Tramways Electriques d'Angers".

On May 21, 1896, two suburban railways, each eight kilometers long, were opened in neighboring communities, which led to Trélazé (line 7) and via Ponts-de-Cé to Érigné (line 8). The starting point was the Place du Ralliement, where the intersection of city lines 1 to 6 with a total length of 14 kilometers was. The city lines started operating between August 23, 1896 and the beginning of 1897. In 1910, the vehicle fleet consisted of 34 multiple units and 15  sidecars .

But the planning weaknesses were soon noticed: the routes were too short to attract passengers sufficiently, on the other hand the frequency of journeys on the most important route sections was insufficient. By 1914, some sections of the road were rebuilt; before that the tram cars drove on the streetcar. An improvement in operations planned from 1912 onwards could not be carried out due to the First World War . As a result of a reorganization of the line network, only three city lines and the two suburban railways remained from 1934. On the other lines, buses gradually replaced tram traffic. Shortly before the start of the Second World War , eight "Buire" railcars were bought by Tram Tours .

After the route network suffered severe damage at the end of the Second World War in 1944, the decline of tram traffic began. In the end there were only the two lines Angers – Érigné and Angers – Trélazé, of which the first was closed on December 28, 1948 and the second on May 1, 1949. After 1970 the company traded as "Société des Transports Urbains d'Angers".

Reconstruction schedule

1: 1 model of the future tram at the Angers 2007 industrial fair

In 2001 the "Mission Tramway" was founded. In the years 2002 to 2003 feasibility studies for the construction of a tram took place. In 2004 the route was determined. The "Déclaration d'utilité publique" took place in 2007, and the archaeological excavations began in the same year. The original schedule with the commissioning of Line A planned for the first half of 2010 could not be adhered to. There was a delay of more than twelve months.

The first cable laying began in the summer of 2007. In January 2008, Alstom began building the first tram for Angers. The actual construction work on the tram route began in early 2009. The depot, which had been under construction since September 2007, was put into operation on December 15, 2009. In December of the same year the first car arrived in Angers. The first test drives on the northern section of the route took place in spring 2010. In October 2010 the newly built Pont Confluences bridge over the Maine was inaugurated. In addition to the tram, it is also used for pedestrian and bicycle traffic. The first scheduled test drives without passengers took place from spring 2011. Line A was commissioned on June 25, 2011.

Line A: Avrillé – Angers Sud (La Roseraie)

Pont Confluences
Single-track section with APS conductor rail in
Rue de la Roë
System change point in Avrillé (Arcias stop), the pantograph is just being moved in

Line A runs from Avrillé , the second largest city in the Angers agglomeration, via the center of Angers to the La Roseraire district in the south of Angers.

A total of around 200 million euros was spent on the construction, of which 47 million euros were for the vehicles. The construction work began in April 2007 with the taking of soil samples along the future route.

The operating hours are daily from 5.30 a.m. to 0.30 a.m. 25 stops were created over a length of 12 kilometers. The travel time between the two end stations is 39 minutes. During the rush hour , the line is operated every 6 minutes.

The stops usually have side platforms, only three stations have central platforms.

The Raymond Perron depot is not far from the Terra Botanica stop near the city limits of Avrillé .

particularities

  • In the western part of the route, the tram has to cross the Maine River. A new, 270-meter-long bridge (Pont confluances) was built for this purpose, which can be used by pedestrians and cyclists next to the tram. In addition, emergency vehicles can use it to reach the university hospital.
  • As in Bordeaux , Orléans , Reims and Tours , the tram receives its traction current in sections instead of from an overhead line from an APS conductor rail sunk into the ground . There are two sections of around 750 meters each in the centers of Angers and Avrillé. The system change points are located at bus stops, the type of power supply is changed when the vehicle is stationary.
  • In the sloping Rue de la Roë, between the Molière and Ralliement stops in the center of Angers, the line is single-track.

Surroundings

  • The " Terra Botanica " leisure and nature park is now located on the former Avrillé airfield . Visitors can access the park via a nearby tram stop.
  • One stop also serves the CHU university hospital. With 4,500 employees, this is the largest employer in the Maine-et-Loire department . Around 3000 visitors are counted every day.
  • Stop at the Angers-St. Laud with numerous TGV stops.

Line B: Beaucouzé – Angers Est

This line is intended to connect Beaucouzé, west of Angers, via the university in the Belle-Beille district and the city center with the Parc des Expositions exhibition center on the northeastern outskirts. The first plans were based on a 16 km long route with 32 stops. The costs were estimated at around 350 million euros. With 63,000 residents living less than 400 m away from the route and 27,000 jobs in the same area, around 40,000 passengers per day were expected on this route. Commissioning should take place before 2020 [obsolete] .

In 2016, a slimmed-down version with a length of only 9.9 km was presented. It is supposed to travel from Belle-Beille via Angers-St. Laud to Montplaisir, using the existing tracks on Line A in the Rue du Haras - Boulevard du Maréchal Foch. Another tram bridge is to be built over the Maine southwest of the city center. Construction work began on February 20, 2017, and the new line is scheduled to go into operation in 2022.

vehicles

Alstom Citadis 302 near Churchill Boulevard
Car 1007 with full advertising in the conductor rail operation in Avrillé

On July 10, 2006, the city council decided to order 17 Citadis 302 low-floor trams from Alstom . A lane is 32.4 m long, 2.4 m wide and 3.5 m high. One vehicle has space for 203 passengers, 56 of them on seats. In addition to the pantograph, the vehicles are equipped with the APS power supply . The average speed is 20 km / h, the maximum speed is 70 km / h. The paintwork of the vehicles is based on the rainbow colors.

Depot

The depot is located between the Terra Botanica and Verneau stations. The entrance and exit is connected from both sides of the route. There are five workshop tracks available; the parking facility has four tracks. The buses are also parked and maintained on the six hectare site. The operations control center is also located in the depot , which cost 22 million euros .

Web links

Commons : Tram Angers  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Jean Robert: Histoire des Transports dans les Villes de France . Self-published, Neuilly-sur-Seine 1974, OCLC 12558219

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e A la découverte de votre tramway ( Memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 5.6 MB) on tramway.angersloiremetropole.fr, accessed on October 25, 2013
  2. ↑ Le bilan du tramway, un an après on angers.villactu.fr
  3. ↑ a b c René Courant: Le temps des tramways . Éditions du Cabri, Menton 1982, ISBN 2-903310-22-X , p. 9 .
  4. ↑ Le tramway sur la voie de l'enquête publique at angers.maville.com, accessed October 25, 2013
  5. ↑ Le préfet valide le tram, les travaux peuvent débuter on angers.maville.com, accessed on October 25, 2013
  6. ↑ Les travaux de l'hôpital sous le tracé du tramway on angers.maville.com, accessed on October 25, 2013
  7. ↑ La rame du tramway sur de bons rails ( Memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) on tramway.angersloiremetropole.fr, accessed on October 25, 2013
  8. ↑ L'écrin du tramway livré en temps et en heure ( Memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) on tramway.angersloiremetropole.fr, accessed on October 25, 2013
  9. ↑ Confluences: inauguration sur fond de contestation ( Memento from April 12, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) on angersmag.info, accessed on October 25, 2013
  10. ↑ Inauguration du tramway ( Memento of August 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) on tramway.angersloiremetropole.fr, accessed on October 25, 2013
  11. ↑ La 2e ligne pourrait coûter 350 millions d'euros on angers.maville.com, accessed on October 25, 2013
  12. ↑ Angers. La seconde ligne de tram, plus tôt que prévue at angers.maville.com, accessed October 25, 2013
  13. ↑ Blickpunkt Tram 3/3017, p. 121
  14. ↑ Le Citadis Alstom ( Memento of November 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) on tramway.angersloiremetropole.fr, accessed October 25, 2013
  15. ^ Citadis. Les caractéristiques du tram angevin on lejournaldesentreprises.com, accessed October 25, 2013