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Breda VLC #02
28 february 2017 - Marcq-en-Barœul, Avenue de la République.
Author: Banan
Place: Marcq-en-Barœul (Hauts-de-France)
| Owner: Ilévia Lille | Transport Authority: MEL | Route: T
Breda VLC #11
28 february 2017 - Marcq-en-Barœul, Avenue de la République. Tak w skrócie wygląda 95% sieci w aglomeracji Lille, czyli wydzielone torowisko położone wzdłuż głównej ulicy z bocznymi peronami.
Author: Banan
Place: Marcq-en-Barœul (Hauts-de-France)
| Owner: Ilévia Lille | Transport Authority: MEL | Route: R
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Breda VLC #18
14 june 2009 - Marcq-en-Barœul (FR) – Croise Laroche. A typical Mongy station. The original depot (now given up and partly demolished) is near here, but a new depot has been built some distance away. When I visited in 2009, the old depot housed several older trams once used on the line, but no longer able to run as the line voltage has changed. I believe these have now gone to the nice little AMITRAM museum nearby.
Breda VLC #03
14 june 2009 - Marcq-en-Barœul (FR) - Croise Laroche. The Mongy (as it is always known, after the architect who built the avenues along which it runs) is a metre-gauge tramway running out from central Lille to the nearby towns of Roubaix and Tourcoing. All services are operated by these mid-1990s Breda trams. At one time, Lille had many other tramways on two gauges, but this one route is now all that remains. This is the junction point for the two Mongy branches.
Van Hool TD927 Astromega #BT-TZ-21
13 october 2011 - Marcq-en-Barœul, Avenue de la République.
Renault PR112 #4826
10 june 2011 - Marcq-en-Baroeul. Avenue de le Republique, Croisé Laroche.
Breda VLC #11
15 june 2009 - Marcq-en-Barœul (FR) - Croise Laroche. Breda car #11 arrives from Lille at the junction between the Roubaix and Tourcoing lines. Here there is a turning circle to allow short workings from Lille, but I don’t think it’s used very often - the normal tram service is just one tram alternately to each outer terminus.
Breda VLC #22
15 june 2009 - Lille (FR)- depot/zajezdnia Rouges-Barres. A line up of Breda trams in the Mongy running shed. Even my wife is better looking than these (after a few beers).
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Breda VLC #14
15 june 2009 - Lille (FR)- depot/zajezdnia Rouges-Barres. We have a saying in English – “clean enough to eat your dinner off the floor” – and this certainly applies to the Mongy depot. Built in the early 1990s as part of the modernisation of the tramway, this place is more like a hospital than a tram depot. The workshops have every type of equipment to keep the Breda trams running (perhaps they need it, too, if they break down a lot?).
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Brossel A92 DAR-L/4 / Jonckheere #340
15 june 2009 - Marcq-en-Baroeul (FR) –depot/zajezdnia ELRT. This bus was operated in Lille from 1965 by the city bus company Compagnie Generale Industrielle de Transport (CGIT). Although it has been stored for some time, the owning AMITRAM group say that it is fully working. It was one of one hundred and fifty similar buses bought by CGIT in the 1960s.
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Type A300 tram #T912
15 june 2009 - Marcq-en-Baroeul (FR) –depot/zajezdnia ELRT. This pair of works cars creates a bit of a puzzle, as both the motor tram and the tower wagon behind it are numbered #T912. They date from 1906 when the original LRT line was opened and belong to the AMITRAM museum group. I don’t know who built them. It should one day be possible to restore the motor tram to look like this http://www.phototrans.eu/14,335874,0,300_series_4_wheel_tram_307.html
ANF ELRT Serie A200 #T901
15 june 2009 - Marcq-en-Baroeul (FR) –depot/zajezdnia ELRT. One of the oldest surviving Lille-Roubaix-Tourcoing trams is this works car dating from 1894. I don’t know who built it, or where it ran before coming to the Mongy, but it must be one of the narrowest trams in existence. The depot building in which this and several other old LRT trams are stored is just about to be pulled down, so a new home must be found for them urgently. The museum group is disposing of several other, non-Lille, trams so that space can be found for these elsewhere.
Duewag GT6Z #399
15 june 2009 - Marcq-en-Baroeul (FR) –depot/zajezdnia ELRT. Another ex-Vestische tram, this time an articulated Duewag GT6Z of 1962. Nineteen of these German trams ran most of the LRT service in the 1980s and early 1990s. Pre-modernisation trams can no longer run on the Mongy, as the line voltage was raised when the Breda cars took over and the old depot, in which they have been stored, is no longer connected to the network. So, they have stood here amongst the pigeon shit for the past fifteen years, waiting for the AMITRAM group to restore them.
Duewag T4Z #362
15 june 2009 - Marcq-en-Baroeul (FR) –depot/zajezdnia ELRT. The ‘Mongy’interurban tramway between Lille, Roubaix and Tourcoing in northern France has operated since 1909 and has had three distinct periods of operation. Until 1980 the line was worked by ‘traditional’ trams, dating from the early years but mostly modernised in the 1950s. In the 1980s, second-hand Duewags from the Vestische Strassenbahn in the German Ruhr district came to the line and kept things going until 1994, when the line was fully modernised and the current fleet of Breda trams arrived. Here is one of the first six Duewag arrivals, a 1955 ‘grossraumwagen’.
400 Series bogie tram #432
15 june 2009 - Lille (FR) - Marcq-en-Baroeul. For the 1994 modernisation, Transpole built a new depot, but the old depot nearby remains abandoned. They also raised the line voltage from 600 volts to 750 volts. Here in the old depot is an example of what was lost when the Breda cars arrived – a 400 series bogie tram from 1911. It’s covered in pigeon shit and feathers, but is still a lovely tram. This ran in service until the 1950s, but can’t run now – there are no connecting tracks and the voltage is too high. I think it last ran for the 70th anniversary in 1979 – but won’t run for the centenary this year - very sad.
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Breda VLC #03
14 june 2009 - Lille (FR) – Croise Laroche. Inside the cab of a Mongy Breda tram, showing the very peculiar design of the controls.
Breda VLC #17
15 june 2009 - Marcq-en-Barœul (FR) – Brossolette. The metre-gauge Lille tramway (universally known as “Le Mongy” after the original engineer) was opened in 1909 along a new road, the Grand Boulevard, stretching from central Lille to the nearby towns of Roubaix and Tourcoing. Although a short branch line from near this point closed down in 1972, the system has survived for 100 years, now with an underground section beneath the city centre. This is the only ‘original’ French tramway to survive.
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Breda VLC #08
14 august 2008 - Marcq-en-Barœul, Avenue des Flandres. Poprzez zastosowanie pojedynczych kół (układ Bo’+1’+1’+1’+Bo’) pokonanie zwrotnicy przy prędkości wyższej niż 5km/h powoduje poważną groźbę wykolejenia, a sam wagon masakrycznie grzechocze i trzęsie przy hamowaniu… Nie, dziękuję…
Comments: 9
Breda VLC #12
23 july 2008 - Marcq-en-Barœul, place Lisfranc Croisé-Laroche.
Breda VLC #02
23 july 2008 - Marcq-en-Barœul, avenue des Flandres.
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