Cassel tram (France)

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The former Cassel tram connected the town of Cassel in the French department of North with its train station from 1900 to 1934 .

history

End of the line at the Grand Place

The Cassel station on the double-track Hazebrouck - Dunkirk of the Northern Railway (CdF du Nord) built in 1848 was about 3.5 kilometers from the town of Cassel, which is on a 157-meter-high hill. Although only a little more than 3,000 people lived there at the beginning of the twentieth century, they were looking for a more convenient connection to the train station.

The "Société du Tramway de Cassel" (STC) opened on July 20, 1900 an electric railway between the station and the municipality. The depot was at the entrance to the village; At the terminus on Grand'Place, the single-track line branched out into two parallel tracks.

The meter-gauge route was 3.37 kilometers long and had a maximum gradient of 65 ‰ due to the considerable height difference of 120 meters. The journey uphill took 15 minutes and downhill ten minutes. In 1914, eleven trips were offered in each direction.

The operation, for which four railcars and three trailer cars were available, was stopped on November 30, 1934 and replaced by a bus service.

literature

  • Jean Robert: Histoire des Transports dans les Villes de France. Self-published, Neuilly-sur-Seine 1974.
  • Henri Domengie, José Banaudo: Les petits trains de jadis. Volume 4: Nord de la France. (= Les Editions du Cabri. 9). Editions du Cabri, Breil-sur-Roya 1995, ISBN 2-908816-29-6 .

Web links

Commons : Cassel Tram (France)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ René Courant: Le temps des tramways . Éditions du Cabri, Menton 1982, ISBN 2-903310-22-X , p. 35 .