Lourdes tram

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Postcard with a tram (1907)

The Lourdes electric tram ( French : Tramway de Lourdes ) was opened by the Compagnie des Tramways de Lourdes (CTL) on August 1, 1899. The meter-gauge network of three kilometers in length was used by three lines that had their starting point at the station.

Two lines led to the basilica in the west of the city . The northern route used the Boulevard de la Grotte and the Pont Neuf, the southern route the Chaussee Maransin, the Rue de la Grotte and the Pont Vieux. Across the Gave de Pau River , they united to the end point. A third line went on the same route as the second in the city center to Place Marcadal and then further south to the Soum stop of the southern railway line to Pierrefitte-Nestalas . There you could change to the funicular to Pic de Jer . The vehicle fleet comprised 20 railcars and six sidecars.

Tram operations stopped around 1930.

literature

  • Baedeker: Sud-Ouest de la France . Leipzig 1906.
  • Jean Robert: Histoire des transports dans les Villes de France . Neuilly-sur-Seine 1974.

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