La Trinité – Étel tram
Map with all coordinates: | La Trinité-Étel | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Decauville steam locomotive with an empty weight of 7.5 t
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| Route length: | 21 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 600 mm, 1000 mm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Maximum slope : | 40 ‰ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Minimum radius : | 30 m | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The tram La Trinité – Étel was an interurban tram in the French department of Morbihan . She joined La Trinite-sur-Mer on Carnac with Étel and had in Plouharnel following the railway line Auray-Quiberon the PO The 21 km long route was in 1901 in narrow gauge created by 60 cm gauge, in the First World War, dismantled and 1922 meters track reopened. Its operation ended in 1935.
chronology
Temporal overview :.
- April 10, 1901: Opening of the section from Plouharnel-Carnac to Étel by the société du tramway de la Trinité à Étel
- June 22, 1901: Opening of the section from Plouharnel-Carnac to La Trinité-sur-Mer
- October 19, 1901: Recognition of the charitable status
- Beginning of September 1914: Business was interrupted, the tracks were opened
- July 17, 1922: Reopening in meter gauge, operating under the direction of the department
- January 1, 1934: Transfer to the Chemins de fer du Morbihan
- November 13, 1935: End of operations
history
Originally this line was built with a 600 mm gauge . It was opened in 1901 by the "société du tramway de la Trinité à Étel" (TTE) and operated by them. It was a sub-concessionaire of a Mr. Payot, who had received the concession from the department. The line was classified as a streetcar ( Tramway ) even if it was operated by steam trains. This entrepreneur also wanted to build a similar line on the Belle-Île from Sauzon and Bangor to Le Palais , but this was not implemented. In no hurry he waited for the declaration of charity, which came into operation after the first summer season.
The choice of the unusual gauge is explained by the attention that this field railway -like system with prefabricated track sections had received from Decauville at the turn of the century ; numerous railways and trams used them; the closest was the Tramway de Rothéneuf . This system was also common in the army. That was the line's undoing, because after the beginning of the First World War the military confiscated all material, vehicles and rails, for the French army field railway . After the end of the war, the indebted entrepreneur sold the part of the material that the army could return; restarting was not possible.
Given this situation, the department decided to buy back the concession and rebuild the line itself. After a few delays about the question of the gauge and possible extensions, the line was rebuilt on the same route, but in meter gauge. The operation was only resumed in 1922 by the "Régie du tramway d'Étel à La Trinité". In 1934 the company was handed over to Chemins de fer du Morbihan (CM) , which quickly moved traffic to the streets. Operations finally ended in November 1935.
service
Before 1914 there were three to five passenger trains a day in each direction all year round. After the reconstruction there were seven to La Trinité and four to Étel.
In freight transport, it connected an ice cream factory in Étel with the fishing port in La Trinité.
vehicles
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The original concessionaire had six steam locomotives, three B1 tank locomotives from Decauville ( Étel, La Trinité and Carnac ) and three C tank locomotives from Orenstein & Koppel . The last three soon had to take over the operation alone as the Decauville machines were quickly worn out. They were later sold to a powder factory in Bergerac .
The vehicle fleet continued to consist of four closed and three open passenger cars and ten freight cars.
Meter gauge
The department used the Pinguély C tank locomotive No. 39 , which was borrowed from the CM , and other vehicles from this line and the Lorient tram for the reconstruction .
For the operation of four C-tank locomotives were of Corpet-Louvet procured and the Pinguely No. 38 CM laid on this route. There were also six passenger cars, three mail and baggage cars and 16 freight cars.
In 1930 a railcar was procured from De Dion-Bouton as No. 101.
After the end of operations, part of the material was reused by the CM .
Individual evidence
- ↑ l ' encyclopédie générale des transports , p. 56.9
- ↑ According to Henri Domengie, op. Cit. , p. 250.
literature
- Henri Domengie: Les petits trains de jadis - Ouest de la France , éditions du Cabri, Breil-sur-Roya 1990, ISBN 2-903310-87-4
- Collectif: Encyclopédie générale des transports - Chemins de fer , éditions de l'Ormet, Valignat 1992
- Yannic Rome: Enfin une réalisation: le tramway d'Étel à La-Trinité-sur-Mer , In: Grandes et petites histoire des tramways et petits trains en Morbihan , Liv'éditions, Le Faouet 2005, ISBN 2-84497-070- 2 , pp. 40-52