MARSEILLE

VIDEO

Above: YouTubeCA video - COEUR de Marseille tramway de 1900 à 2004 - Length: 4:36 mins.

PHOTO

MAPS

INSET: CENTRAL MARSEILLE

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ABBREVIATIONS ON THE MAPS

ROUTES

URBAN TRAM ROUTES

Operator: Compagnie générale française de tramways (CGFT)

Note: The city termini of routes 30 and 89 are based on the situation in 1939: my sources do not provide it for 1930. The circular nature of route 67 is also in doubt.

INTERURBAN TRAM ROUTE

Operator: Régie départementale des Chemins de Fer et Tramways électriques des Bouches-du-Rhône

CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SYSTEM

NETWORK LENGTH

• Urban tramway: ca. 180 km.
• Interurban tramway: 21 km. (not including shared tracks with the urban network in Marseille).

HISTORY

• Horse tramway: 21 Jan. 1876 - 1903?
• Steam tramway: 1891 - 1904.
• Urban electric tramway (Marseille): May 1892 - today.
• Interurban electric tramway: 13 Aug. 1903 - 1948.
• Electric tramway (Aubagne): 1 Sept. 2014 - today
• Métro: 26 Nov. 1977 - today.

GAUGE

• Tramways (horse trams and first-generation electric): 1430 mm.
• Tramways (second-generation electric and Aubagne): 1435 mm.
• Metro: 1435 mm.

SOURCES

PRINT

• Jackson, A.A. "The tramways of Marseille", The Modern Tramway, June 1950 (13: 150), p.134-139.
• Laupiès, J. & Martin, J. Les tramways de Marseille ont cent ans Marseille: P. Tacussel, 1990.
• Malterre, P. "The tramways of Marseille today", Modern Tramway & Light Railway Review, May 1963 (26: 305), p.160-163.
• "Marseille: A plan for growth", Tramways & Urban Transit, Sept. 2024 (87: 1041), p.338-339.
• Pulling, N. "Systems Factfile No.41 - Marseille, France", Tramways & Urban Transit, Feb. 2011 (74: 878), p.59-62.
• Wansbeek, C.J. "Light rail the key to mobility in Marseille", Tramways & Urban Transit, Dec. 1999 (62: 744), p.455-458.
• Wansbeek, C.J. "Marseille - Two new tramlines, another French light rail triumph", Tramways & Urban Transit, Oct. 2007 (70: 838), p.377-380.

WIKIS

• Ancien tramway de Marseille
• Compagnie des tramways électriques des Bouches-du-Rhône
• Métro de Marseille
• Régie des transports métropolitains
• Tramway d'Aubagne
• Tramway de Marseille

WEB SITES

• RTM (Régie des transports métropolitains)

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