User:Rcsprinter123/Lille tramway
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The Lille tramway (French: Tramway de Lille) is a public transit system in the city of Lille in Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France. The tramway is often called the Mongy, after Alfred Mongy, the engineer who created the interurban lines that make up the current system. The system is operated by Transpole, the public transport operator for the Lille Métropole. Transpole also operates the Lille Metro, an underground and elevated VAL system, and 68 urban bus routes, all of which share a common ticketing system.
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Overview | |||
Native name | Tramway de Lille | ||
Locale | Lille, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France | ||
Transit type | Tram | ||
Number of lines | 2[1] | ||
Number of stations | 36[1] | ||
Operation | |||
Began operation | 1874 (horse), 1900 (electric) | ||
Operator(s) | Transpole | ||
Technical | |||
System length | 22 km (14 mi) | ||
Track gauge | 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) | ||
Electrification | 750 V DC | ||
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The tramway consists of two interurban lines, which form a Y-shape connecting central Lille to the nearby communities of Roubaix and Tourcoing, and has 36 stations.[1] These two lines are the survivors of very dense network that served the metropolis until the 1960s. After the closure in 1966 of the last line of the CGIT Lille network, the lines were the only tramway still in use in France, other than those of Saint-Étienne and Marseille, before the renaissance of French tramways from the 1980s.
The lines were built at the same time as the boulevards linking Lille to its two neighbours, and the lines run on reserved track within the boulevards for most of their length.[2]