Le Mans tramway

Le Mans tramway
Overview
Native nameTramway du Mans
LocaleLe Mans, Pays de la Loire, France
Transit typeTram
Number of lines2
Number of stations35
Annual ridership18.6 million (2017)
Operation
Began operation17 November 2007
Operator(s)Société d'Économie Mixte des Transports en Commun de l'Agglomération Mancelle (SETRAM)
Technical
System length18.8 km (11.7 mi)
Track gauge1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge
System map
ram on Avenue du Général Leclerc in Le Mans
ram on Avenue du Général Leclerc in Le Mans
Legend
1
Université
Campus-Ribay
Clinique du Pré
Epiné
Hôpital
Hauts de
Coulaines
2
Théodore
Monod
Zamenhof
Müriers
Banjan
Lafayette
Croix de Pierre
Cité
Plantagenêt
Quinconces
République
Comtes du
Maine
Préfecture
Fleurus
Gares SNCF TGV
Zola
Viaducs
Pavillion
Saint-Martin
Pontlieue
Churchill
Vaillant
Sablons
Goya
Île aux Sports
Centre-Sud
Epau
Jules Raimu
Espal
2
Guetteloup
1
Antarés

The Le Mans tram (French: Tramway du Mans) serves the city of Le Mans in the Pays de la Loire department of France.

History

Alstom's T3 work includes bogies, like this mockup of a pneumatic bogie system for an MP 89 carriage on the Meteor metro, showing the two special wheelsets.

The Le Mans tramway opened on the 17 November 2007.[1]

As of January 2026, the tramway comprises two lines, T1 and T2, with a seven-station overlap in town center.[1] The city plans to open a third T3 line during the summer of 2026.[2]

The most recent addition to the tramway occurred on the 30 August 2014 which added a connection to Bellevue and created the second line T2, which before had been a single line with branch. The original section of line is considered unusually cheap, costing 302 million euros for 15.4 km. There are no current plans to extend the current the two lines.[1]

In March 2024, Alstom announced that it had won a 57 million euro contract to build a new, third T3 tramway line. Work includes extension of current tramways from 32 to 44 metres and modernisation. The contract aims to increase transport capacity by 40%. Support for Alstom's work will come from its sites in: La Rochelle and Crespin (design, industrialization, assembly of trams), Le Creusot (bogies), Ornans (engines), Villeurbanne (on-board electronics), Aix-en-Provence (tachometric units), and Tarbes (cooling units, power modules).[2] Construction on T3 began in 2025.[1]

Operations

Tram arriving at Gare du Mans, where T1 and T2 lines currently overlap and where T3 will join them in the summer of 2026.

As of October 2025, the official Le Mans Metropole advises that Le Mans continues to offer its two tram lines, T1 and T2, which criss-cross the city. T1 runs 24 stations between in a diagonal from the Antarès stop in the southeast to the Université stop in the northeast. T2 runs 18 stations in a half circle from the Bellevue-Hauts de Coulaines stop in the east to the Espal-Arche de la nature stop in the northeast.[3] The T3 line will extend the crisscrossing by running from a Allonnes - Bois Joli stop in the southwest to the stop at Gare du Mans, the city's main train station on the southwest edge of town center and overlapping with the T1 and T2 lines.[4]

During peak hours, trams reach stations every six minutes and at overlapping T1-T2 stations, between the Prefecture and Saint-Martin stops, every three minutes.[3]

General hours of operation are:

  • 05:00 to 01:00 next morning on weekdays and Saturdays
  • 06:00 to 01:00 next day on Sundays and public holidays[3]

Rolling stock

The design of the rolling stock was carried out by RCP Design Global agency, which formulated the general concept, fabrics, interior environment and the tram delivery on behalf of Alstom.[citation needed]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d Christelle Caillot (22 March 2021). "Les rames du tramway vont passer de 32 à 44 mètres". Ici. Retrieved 6 January 2026.
  2. ^ a b "Alstom wins contract to extend Le Mans trams in France". Alstom. 12 March 2024. Retrieved 6 January 2026.
  3. ^ a b c "Les transports en commun". Le Mans Metropole. 8 October 2025. Retrieved 6 January 2026.
  4. ^ "SETRAM-plan 524X627 mm" (PDF). University of Le Mans.

allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Mans_tramway