Mulhouse tramway
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The Mulhouse tramway (
Tram services
The three pure tram lines intersect at Porte Jeune stop in central Mulhouse, and comprise:[2]
- Line Gare Centrale to Châtaignier
- Line from Nouveau Bassin to Coteaux
- Line from Gare Central to Lutterbach
Lines 1 and 2 were put into service in 2006, whilst line 3 is a short working of the tram-train line and opened in December 2010 with that line. Extensions are planned for line 1, from Châtaignier to Bosquets du Roy, and for line 2, from Nouveau Bassin to Jonquilles.[2]
The network is electrified at 750 V DC using overhead power collection. Services are provided by a fleet of twenty-two 32 m (105 ft) long Alstom Citadis 302 trams. Both the network and the trams are operated by Soléa, who also operate the city's bus network, on behalf of the Mulhouse Alsace Agglomération (MAA).[2][3]
Tram-train services
The tram-train line runs from Gare Central to
At Lutterbach, a connection is made to the existing railway line to Thann and Kruth. This line is electrified at 25 kV 50 Hz AC between Lutterbach and Thann St Jacques (the former Thann Nord), and is single track with passing loops. It carries both the tram-train service and an SNCF diesel railcar service to Kruth, which uses the main railway line between Lutterbach and Gare Central. Freight trains also run at night.[2]
A second phase of the line will involve extending the electrification as far as Kruth, allowing tram-trains to run through to there, and also allowing the SNCF to replace the diesel railcar service with an electric unit. However no timescales are in place for this.[2]
The tram-train service uses 12 36.68 m (120 ft 4 in) long
See also
References
- ^ a b "Rapport annuel 2018 sur le parc, le trafic et les événements d'exploitation des tramways" (PDF) (in French). STRMTG - Service Technique des Remontées Mécaniques et des Transports Guidés. 20 December 2019. p. 11. Retrieved 2020-09-02.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Haydock, David (April 2011). "France's first real tram train". Today's Railways. Platform 5 Publishing Ltd: 37–40.
- ^ a b "Soléa en chiffres 2010" [Soléa in figures 2010] (in French). Soléa. Archived from the original on 2011-07-19. Retrieved 2011-04-10.
External links
- Media related to Tram transport in Mulhouse at Wikimedia Commons
- Soléa – official website