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Tramway de Nice - Lignes d'Azur
Page 2: The Tram Fleet
This page illustrates the tram fleet of the new Nice Tramway, opened 2007.
Nice Trams - Page 1
illustrates the new route T1.
The original Nice tramway, the Tramway de Nice et du Littoral, ran between 1897 and 1953. This consisted of a coastal route Cagnes-sur-Mer-Nice-Beaulieu-Monte Carlo-Menton in addition to the Nice urban network, with 144 km of route at its peak in 1925.
The new Nice tramway opened on 24th November 2007, following an extended construction period starting in July 2003 (it was originally planned to open winter 2004/2005). The initial U-shaped route T1 is 8.7 km long with 20 stations linking
Las Planas
in the north-west with
Pont Michel
in the north-east. There are plans to extend this route 4.7 km to the east to La Trinité. A second route T2 is being finalised running from Nice Port to the Airport, crossing T1 at
Garibaldi
. Initially planned to run along the promenade, but later planned to run one block away from the sea.Subsequent plans reverted to the promenade route. This route could be extended to Cagnes-sur-Mer and Sophia Antipolis in the east. A third route T3 could run north to Lingostière (connecting with the
CP
). Other plans to build a new cruise and ferry port near the airport might conceivably change this.
Rolling stock consists of 20 Alstom Citadis trams, with distinctive end design (as is usual with these vehicles). All vehicles are named after local towns/areas. They have dimensions of 33 m x 2.65 m, carry 215 people (54 seated) and a speed of 70 km/h maximum. The trams have five sections and can be extended in the future to a length of 44 m. Platforms have been built to accommodate the longer trams, and based on how busy services were throughout the days on my visit midweek in February, this might be sooner rather than later.
It was decided that it would not be appropriate to have overhead wires across
Place Masséna
and
Place Garibaldi
. Initially a system similar to that at Bordeaux was proposed, with a centre rail. However, this was changed to the use of battery power across these sections. Trams drop their pantographs at
Masséna
southbound, and raise them again at
Opéra
. They are lowered again one just stop later at
Cathédrale
, raising them again at
Garibaldi
. The system seems to work well. The raising for just a few hundred metres between
Opéra
and
Cathédrale
is presumably precautionary - I would hope they are capable of travelling from
Masséna
right through to
Garibaldi
if necessary.
Trams with Announced and Actual Names:-
Note that trams 007 and 019 have different names at each end
001
- Nice
002
- Cagnes-sur-Mer
003
- Saint-Laurent-du-Var
004
- Vence
005
- La-Trinité
006
- Villefranche-sur-Mer
007
- La-Gaude (carried: La-Gaude + Saint-Jeannet)
008
- Cap-d'Ail
009
- Saint-André-de-la-Roche (actual: Tourrette-Levens)
010
- Tourrette-Levens (actual: Saint-André-de-la-Roche)
011
- Levens
012
- Beaulieu-sur-Mer
013
- Saint-Jeannet (carried: Eze)
014
- Colomars
015
- Eze (carried: Saint-Martin-du-Var)
016
- Saint-Martin-du-Var (actual: Aspremont)
017
- Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat + Aspremont (actual: Falicon + Falicon)
018
- Falicon + Castagniers (actual: Castagniers + Castagniers)
019
- Saint-Blaise + La-Roquette-sur-Var
020
- Coaraze + Duranus (actual: Coaraze + Coaraze)
Nice Pages:-
Nice
- Nice Header Page
Nice Trams - Page 1
- Route T1
Nice Trams - Page 2
- The Trams
- this page!
Nice Photo Diary 2009
- February 2009 - Trams, CP and ferries
Nice Photo Diary 2010
- February 2010 - Trams, CP
Nice Shipping
CP Page 1A
- Chemins de Fer de Provence Rolling Stock - Autorails
CP Page 1B
- Chemins de Fer de Provence Rolling Stock - Diesel Locos & Trailers
CP Page 2
- Chemins de Fer de Provence Stations & Publicity
Timetable Archive:-
Route T1 - 2009 August Timetable
- 2 MB Adobe .pdf file
Route T1 - 2008 September Timetable
- 3 MB Adobe .pdf file
Route T1 - 2008 February Timetable
- 600 KB Adobe .pdf file
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Nice Page 2: Tram Fleet
Route Map
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Tram 001
Nice
Tram 001 at Jean Médecin
Photo: © Ian Boyle, 19th February 2010
Tram 001 at Jean Médecin
Photo: © Ian Boyle, 19th February 2010
Tram 001 at Vauban
Photo: © Ian Boyle, 19th February 2010
Tram 002
Cagnes-sur-Mer
Tram 002 at Borriglione
Photo: © Ian Boyle, 12th February 2008
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Tram 002 at Borriglione
Photo: © Ian Boyle, 12th February 2008
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Tram 002 at Borriglione
Photo: © Ian Boyle, 12th February 2008
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Tram 002 entering Place Garibaldi
Photo: © Ian Boyle, 13th February 2008
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Tram 002 in Place Garibaldi
Photo: © Ian Boyle, 13th February 2008
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Tram 002 at Gare Thiers
Photo: © Ian Boyle, 13th February 2008
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Tram 002 at Gare Thiers
Photo: © Ian Boyle, 13th February 2008
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Trams 002 and 016 at Masséna
Photo: © Ian Boyle, 14th February 2008
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Tram 002 at Masséna
Photo: © Ian Boyle, 14th February 2008
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Trams 002 and 019 at Pont Michel
Photo: © Ian Boyle, 14th February 2008
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Trams 002 and 019 at Pont Michel
Photo: © Ian Boyle, 14th February 2008
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Trams 002 and 019 at Pont Michel
Photo: © Ian Boyle, 14th February 2008
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Tram 002 at Garibaldi with pantograph rising
Photo: © Ian Boyle, 17th February 2009
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Tram 003
Saint-Laurent-du-Var
Tram 003 leaving Place Garibaldi for Cathédrale
Photo: © Ian Boyle, 12th February 2008
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Tram 003 in Place Garibaldi on short working to Acropolis (due to a non-tram accident)
Photo: © Ian Boyle, 13th February 2008
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Tram 003 in Place Garibaldi on short working to Acropolis (due to a non-tram accident)
Photo: © Ian Boyle, 13th February 2008
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Tram 003 in Place Garibaldi on short working to Acropolis (due to a non-tram accident)
Photo: © Ian Boyle, 13th February 2008
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Tram 003 at Cathédrale on short working from Acropolis
Photo: © Ian Boyle, 13th February 2008
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Tram 003 at Las Planas
Photo: © Ian Boyle, 14th February 2008
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Tram 003 at Le Ray
Photo: © Ian Boyle, 20th February 2009
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Tram 004
Vence
Tram 004 in Rue du Soleil approaching Valrose Université
Photo: © Ian Boyle, 14th February 2008
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Tram 004 in Rue du Soleil approaching Valrose Université
Photo: © Ian Boyle, 14th February 2008
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Trams 004 and 009 at Opéra
Photo: © Ian Boyle, 12th February 2008
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Trams 004 and 008 at Saint-Jean d'Angély Université
Photo: © Ian Boyle, 14th February 2008
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Tram 004 at Saint-Jean d'Angély Université
Photo: © Ian Boyle, 14th February 2008
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Tram 005
La Trinité
In February 2009, 005 was carrying
advertising vinyls
to publicize the Nice bid to host the
2018 Winter Olympics - one of four French cities hoping to go forward to the main bids.
Tram 005 in Place Masséna
Photo: © Ian Boyle, 14th February 2008