Lorient tram

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Lorient, Place du Morbihan around 1908
Inner-city route network in 1928

The Lorient tram was a meter-gauge tram in the French port city of Lorient in the Breton department of Morbihan . It opened up the urban area and the neighboring town of Ploemeur , two overland lines led to Guidel in the west and Hennebont in the northeast of Lorient. It was in operation from 1901 to 1944.

history

The Compagnie des tramways de Lorient was founded on June 22nd, 1897 with headquarters in Paris. At the beginning of 1901, three city lines started operating. A line from Lorient to Hennebont was approved on June 14, 1901, which opened on May 1, 1902. The line was discontinued on November 26, 1932. On September 8, 1908, the line to Guidel was opened, which was abandoned on May 2. It was planned to cease operations in the urban area on January 1, 1938, in fact the network was kept operational because of the war and served as required. In 1939 there was a company in Plomeur. The infrastructure was officially closed and operations were resumed by the occupiers. After being destroyed by war damage, operations were finally shut down in 1944.

In December 2008 the re-introduction of a tram was discussed in the agglomeration committees.

network

On April 8, 1901, the first three lines were declared non-profit making the final operating permit.

The meter-gauge network was 32 km long. It consisted of the following lines:

  • Keryado - La Perrière
  • Place Bisson - Ploemeur ,
  • Place Bisson - Hennebont
  • Swing bridge ( Pont tournant ) - Pont de Kérentrech with branch to the train station.
  • Keryado - Guidel
Tram at the Porte du Morbihan ...
... Cours Chazelles ...
... and on the swing bridge

stretch

According to the décret du 3 avril 1901 déclarant d'utilité publique l'établissement d'un réseau de tramways dans la ville de Lorient (Morbihan) et sa banlieue , the network planned in 1901 consisted of the following lines:

  • Line A from Kériado to La Perrière ; on the then route nationale 165 , today Rue de Belgique , Rue de Brest (today Rue Paul Guieysse ), Cours Louis de Chazelle , Rue Victor-Massé , Place Alsace-Lorraine , Rue des Fontaines , to Place Bisson ( Corner of Rue des Fontaines / Cour de la Bôve , today built over), Rue Pont-Carré , Rue Poissonnière , along the quay, over the former swing bridge (today Pont François Le Corre ), Rue Carnot , Rue de Carnel and finally the avenue de la Perrière to the confluence of the Chemin des Bains-Bois (today rue de Bout de Monde ).
  • Junction A 1 , from Rue Poissonnière eastwards through what was then rue du Port (now overbuilt) to the large barracks gate.
  • Line B from Place Bisson to Plœmeur; from Place Bisson via Place Saint-Louis , Rue du Morbihan (both today Rue Maréchal Foch ), Rue Saint-Pierre (western extension of today's street of the same name, built over), Place Alsace-Lorraine , Rue de la Patrie , straight ahead on the western quay of the port at that time (across today's Parc Jules Ferry ), to the right to Place de Kerlin (corner of Place Jules Ferry / Avenue Anatole France ), Rue du Faouédic (now Avenue Jean Jaurès ), Rue de Merville and on along Route de Plœmeur and Rue Sainte-Anne to the church in Plœmeur ( Place de l'eglise ).
  • Branch B 1 of the Rue du Morbihan by the Rue des Colonies and the Rue du Lycée (both overbuilt today) to the small barracks.
  • Line C, from the swing bridge to Kerentrech, followed line A from the swing bridge to Place Bisson and from there to the confluence of rue Saint-Pierre of line B, then continued straight on over rue du Morbihan , merged at Place du Morbihan again with line A to behind the train station, then on through the Rue du Pont (today Rue de Verdun ) to the suspension bridge over the Scorff (today Pont Saint-Christophe ).
  • Junction C 1 from Cours Chazelles into Rue Beauvais in front of the train station.
  • Junction B 2 followed in 1909, it led from the Place de Kerlin in front of the Bodélio hospital (intersection of Rue de Kerlin / Rue de Petit Batteur ).
  • The overland line to Hennebont was an extension of the C-route over the Pont Saint-Christophe . This was a 292 m long suspension bridge built in 1848 , which was reinforced for the tram in 1900. In 1960 it was replaced by a modern construction. The route continued along the country road through Lanester to Hennebont train station.
  • The overland line to Guidel followed from Keriado (A route) the country road (today D 765).

Power supply

Originally the network was supplied with electricity according to the Diatto system. This consisted of a series of contacts between the rails. The system was abolished in 1911 and replaced by overhead lines. The line to Ploemeur had overhead lines from the start.

vehicles

The company had 27 motor cars and 17 sidecars.

literature

  • René Courant: Le Temps des Tramways . Breil-sur-Roya 1980.
  • René Hulot: Les petits trains du Morbihan . Editions la vie du rail. Paris.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ a b http://www.archive.org/stream/annalesdesponts10chaugoog/annalesdesponts10chaugoog_djvu.txt
  3. ↑ Bulletin de lois, limited preview in Google book search
  4. ^ "Le pays de Lorient repense très fort au tramway" , on lorient.maville.com, December 24, 2008 (accessed November 12, 2015)
  5. ↑ see page 1315
  6. ↑ Annales des ponts et chaussées , page 512ff.
  7. ↑ Claude Le Colleter: DU BAC DE KERENTRECH AUX PONTS SAINT CHRISTOPHE , SAHPL, accessed on November 13, 2015