List of trolleybus systems in France

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This is a list of trolleybus systems in France by région. It includes all trolleybus systems, past and present.

Contents 1  Alsace 2  Aquitaine 3  Auvergne 4  Basse-Normandie 5  Bourgogne 6  Bretagne 7  Centre 8  Franche-Comté 9  Haute-Normandie 10  Île-de-France 11  Languedoc-Roussillon 12  Limousin 13  Lorraine 14  Midi-Pyrénées 15  Nord-Pas de Calais 16  Pays de la Loire 17  Picardie 18  Poitou-Charentes 19  Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur 20  Rhône-Alpes 21 References 22 See also

[edit]  Alsace

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Mulhouse	9 Oct 1908 5 Jul 1946	14 July 1918 1968
	Strasbourg	27 May 1939	31 Mar 1962

[edit]  Aquitaine

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Bordeaux	May 1940	1954

[edit]  Auvergne

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Clermont-Ferrand	Oct 2006		Translohr

[edit]  Basse-Normandie

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Caen	15 Nov 2002		TVR. See Caen Guided Light Transit.

[edit]  Bourgogne

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Dijon	1895 7 Jan 1950	1895 30 Mar 1966

[edit]  Bretagne

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Brest	29 July 1947	1970
	Saint-Malo	1906 10 Jul 1948	5 Jun 1907 30 Sep 1959

[edit]  Centre

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Tours	5 Oct 1947	29 Jun 1968

[edit]  Franche-Comté

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Belfort	4 Jul 1952	1 Aug 1972

[edit]  Haute-Normandie

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Le Havre	1 Aug 1947	28 Dec 1970
	Rouen	2 Jan 1933	26 Jun 1970

[edit]  Île-de-France

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Fontainebleau	15 Jul 1901	1913
	Paris	15 Apr 1900 1912	12 Nov 1900 1914	at Saint-Mandé. at Saint-Mandé. Also Jan 1922 demonstration.
	♦ Vitry	7 Apr 1925	8 Jul 1935
	♦ Porte de Champerret - Bezons / Argenteuil	8 Jan 1943	31 Mar 1962
	♦ Porte de Choisy - Choisy-le-Roi and Porte d'Italie - Thiais	16 Jan 1950	31 Mar 1966

[edit]  Languedoc-Roussillon

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Nîmes - Remoulins	10 Jul 1924	31 Dec 1927
	Perpignan	21 Sep 1952	Jun 1968

[edit]  Limousin

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Limoges	14 Jul 1943

[edit]  Lorraine

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Metz	14 Sep 1947	30 Apr 1966
	Nancy	27 Sep 1982		Dual-mode (trolley/diesel) operation. See note.

• Note for Nancy: TVR opened 28 Jan 2001, planned to replace dual-mode buses. Operation suspended 9 Mar 2001 - 13 Mar 2002 because of technical problems.

[edit]  Midi-Pyrénées

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Forbach	19 May 1951	1 Nov 1969
	Montauban	Jan 1903	1904

[edit]  Nord-Pas de Calais

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Béthune	1898	1904

Goods (freight) line:

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Leers	1910	1965

[edit]  Pays de la Loire

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Le Mans	13 Nov 1947	1969

[edit]  Picardie

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Amiens	1946	Feb 1963

[edit]  Poitou-Charentes

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Poitiers	9 Aug 1943	3 Mar 1965

[edit]  Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Aubagne - Cuges-les-Pins	19 Sep 1927	20 Jul 1958
	Marseille	13 Jun 1903 26 Apr 1942	1 Sep 1905 25 Jun 2004	First system connected Allauch and La Rose. Second system included an interurban line to Aix-en-Provence.
	Nice	30 Apr 1942	12 Sep 1970
	Toulon	7 May 1949	19 Feb 1973

[edit]  Rhône-Alpes

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Chambéry	6 Oct 1930	Jun 1940
	Grenoble	1 Aug 1947	24 Jun 1999
	Lyon	1901 4 Sep 1935	10 September 1907 -	First system located at Charbonnières-les-Bains).
	Modane - Lanslebourg	20 Aug 1923	Jun 1940
	Moûtiers - Salins (-les-Thermes)	15 Apr 1930	Mar 1965
	Saint-Étienne	1 Jan 1942		System included an interurban line to Firminy

• Note: TVR, Transport sur Voie Réservée, is the Guided Light Transit guided bus system, marketed as "Trams sur pneus" (trams on tyres). Caen vehicles collect current from a single overhead wire using a pantograph, and return current through the center guide rail. Nancy vehicles collect and return current from twin overhead wires using trolley poles. Translohr is a similar system, with bi-directional vehicles.

[edit] References

• Books, Periodicals and External Links

[edit] See also

• List of trolleybus systems
• List of town tramway systems
• List of light-rail transit systems
• List of rapid transit systems