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Breda VLC #02
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.
Author: dvigar
Author: dvigar
14 june 2009 - Lille (FR) – Croise Laroche. Inside the cab of a Mongy Breda tram, showing the very peculiar design of the controls.
Author: dvigar
Author: dvigar
Breda VLC #04
Breda VLC #05
Breda VLC #06
14 august 2008 - Roubaix, Av. Jean Jaures. Jeden z ładniejszych odcinków sieci, która akurat wydawała mi się być wybitnie nudna…
Author: straphan
Author: straphan
15 june 2009 - Roubaix (FR) – Alfred Mongy. Built by the Italian firm of Breda in 1993, these must be the strangest trams in the world. Just like many (older) Italian women, they’re fat, ugly and very noisy. The designer was Pininfarina (the company who also designed Ferrari and other Italian supercars), so maybe these trams were designed when they were drunk? You wouldn’t enjoy riding in one of these – they make a Konstal 105Na seem very sexy and attractive.
Author: dvigar
Author: dvigar
Comments: 1
Breda VLC #07
28 february 2017 - Villeneuve-d`Ascq, Avenue de Flandre. Po ostatnim odświeżeniu wagony trochę lepiej się prezentują.
Author: Banan
Author: Banan
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…
Author: straphan
Author: straphan
Comments: 9
15 june 2009 - Tourcoing (FR) – Quai de Marseille. Two Breda trams pass alongside the canal, just outside Tourcoing town centre. Although the VAL Metro serves both Roubaix and Tourcoing with a line into central Lille, the tramway is still quite well used.
Author: dvigar
Author: dvigar
Breda VLC #09
25 april 2011 - Roubaix, Boulevard du Général Leclerc. Tramwaj tuż po ruszeniu z początkowego przystanku w Roubaix udaje się w półgodzinną podróż do Lille.
Author: Banan
Author: Banan
Comments: 1
Breda VLC #10
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.
Author: dvigar
Author: dvigar
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
Author: Banan
Comments: 1
Breda VLC #12
23 july 2008 - Lille, dworzec Flamandzki. W sumie zapomniałem o fotce wnętrza potwora z Lille.
Author: JacekM
Author: JacekM
Comments: 4
14 august 2008 - Tourcoing, Rue Chanzy. Jeśli Transpole będzie oferować te wagony na sprzedaż za kilkanaście lat, NIE BIERZCIE! Nawet za darmo! :)
Author: straphan
Author: straphan
Comments: 4
Breda VLC #13
Breda VLC #14
23 july 2008 - Wasquehal, Avenue de Flandre. Mam zaszczyt przedstawić Wam sieć tramwajową w konurbacji Lille.
Author: JacekM
Author: JacekM
Comments: 1
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?).
Author: dvigar
Author: dvigar
Comments: 2
Breda VLC #16
15 june 2009 - Tourcoing (FR) – Rue Chanzy. One of the two Mongy branches finishes here in Tourcoing, where there is a short stretch of single track street running. These must be the ugliest trams in the world – so ugly, in fact, that you would ask for help if you looked so ugly! Also, they are very noisy and (amazingly) 2.40m wide on the metre gauge. Even old Konstal and Tatra trams are better than this.......
Author: dvigar
Author: dvigar
Comments: 3
15 june 2009 - Tourcoing (FR) – Rue Chanzy. The last stretch of line into Tourcoing centre is a single track, running in the street – the only place where the Mongy leaves the private tracks along the boulevards or the subway under central Lille.
Author: dvigar
Author: dvigar
15 june 2009 - Tourcoing (FR) – Rue Chanzy. The Lille tramway has very little street running, but here in Tourcoing is a short section of single track. Car 16 has just left the terminus on a trip to central Lille. This is one of two branches of the Mongy, the other leading to Roubaix. These trams are 2.40m wide on metre gauge!
Author: dvigar
Author: dvigar
Comments: 3
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.
Author: dvigar
Author: dvigar
Comments: 3
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.
Author: dvigar
Author: dvigar
Breda VLC #19
15 june 2009 - Tourcoing (FR) – Quai de Marseille. One of the very ugly Breda trams in Tourcoing. These vehicles are unique and (thankfully) no more of this type were built. In my opinion, the Mongy is welcome to them!
Author: dvigar
Author: dvigar
Comments: 2
15 june 2009 - Tourcoing (FR) – Pont Hydraulique. Two Breda trams pass alongside the canal in Tourcoing. The service on each of the two lines is about every ten minutes, giving a five minute headway on the common section into Lille.
Author: dvigar
Author: dvigar
Breda VLC #20
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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).
Author: dvigar
Author: dvigar
Comments: 2
Breda VLC #23
15 june 2009 - Tourcoing (FR) – Pont Hydraulique. A Mongy tram heading for Lille. The blank areas with no windows behind the cabs are where all the electrical equipment is housed, so passengers have no view to the front and the driver sits all alone, some distance away from the rest of the tram.
Author: dvigar
Author: dvigar
Breda VLC #24
