List of trolleybus systems in France

This is a list of trolleybus systems in France by region. It includes all trolleybus systems, past and present. Bold text indicates a system that is still operating.

Alsace

Name of system Location Date (from) Date (to) Notes Gleislose Bahn Mühlhausen Mulhouse 9 October 1908 14 July 1918See also Trolleybus de Mulhouse for the first system, German denomination Gleislose Bahn Mühlhausen for the first system, because Mulhouse was part of German Empire until 1918. 5 July 1946 1968 Strasbourg 27 May 1939 31 March 1962

Aquitaine

Name of system Location Date (from) Date (to) Notes Bordeaux May 1940 1954

Burgundy

Name of system Location Date (from) Date (to) Notes Dijon 7 January 1950 30 March 1966

Brittany

Name of system Location Date (from) Date (to) Notes Brest 29 July 1947 1970 Saint-Malo 1906 5 June 1907Electrobus designed by Louis Lombard-Gérin made by Compagnie de Traction par Trolley Automoteur, and run by Société des Tracteurs Breton.Bruce, Ashley R. Lombard-Gerin and Inventing the Trolleybus. (2017) Trolleybooks (UK). . 10 July 1948 30 September 1959

Centre-Val de Loire

Name of system Location Date (from) Date (to) Notes Tours 5 October 1947 29 June 1968 See also Trolleybuses in Tours.

Name of system Location Date (from) Date (to) Notes Belfort 4 July 1952 1 August 1972

Upper Normandy

Name of system Location Date (from) Date (to) Notes Le Havre 1 August 1947 28 December 1970 Rouen 2 January 1933 26 June 1970

Île-de-France

Name of system Location Date (from) Date (to) Notes Fontainebleau 12 June 1901 30 August 1913 Louis Lombard-Gérin, first commercial trolleybus route. Paris 2 August 1900 12 November 1900 at Vincennes, Lombard-Gérin. 1912 1914 at Saint-Mandé. Mercedes-Stoll. Also January 1922 demonstration. ♦ Vitry-sur-Seine 7 April 1925 8 July 1935 ♦ Porte de Champerret – Bezons / Argenteuil 8 January 1943 31 March 1962 ♦ Porte de Choisy – Choisy-le-Roi and Porte d'Italie – Thiais 16 January 1950 31 March 1966

Languedoc-Roussillon

Name of system Location Date (from) Date (to) Notes Nîmes – Remoulins 10 July 1924 31 December 1927 Perpignan 21 September 1952 June 1968

Limousin

Name of system Location Date (from) Date (to) Notes Limoges 14 July 1943 See also Trolleybuses in Limoges.

Lorraine

Name of system Location Date (from) Date (to) Notes Forbach 19 May 1951 1 November 1969 Metz 14 September 1947 30 April 1966 Nancy 27 September 1982 See Trolleybuses in Nancy.

Midi-Pyrénées

Name of system Location Date (from) Date (to) Notes Montauban January 1903 1904 Lombard-Gerin.

Pays de la Loire

Name of system Location Date (from) Date (to) Notes Le Mans 13 November 1947 1969

Picardy

Name of system Location Date (from) Date (to) Notes Amiens 1946 February 1963

Poitou-Charentes

Name of system Location Date (from) Date (to) Notes Poitiers 9 August 1943 3 March 1965

Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

Name of system Location Date (from) Date (to) Notes Aubagne – Cuges-les-Pins 19 September 1927 20 July 1958 Marseille 13 June 1903 1 September 1905 First system, Lombard-Gerin, connected Allauch and La Rose. 26 April 1942 25 June 2004 Trolleybus Magazine No. 258 (November-December 2004), p. 137. Second system included an interurban line to Aix-en-Provence. Nice 30 April 1942 12 September 1970 Toulon 7 May 1949 19 February 1973

Rhône-Alpes

Name of system Location Date (from) Date (to) Notes Chambéry 6 October 1930 June 1940 Grenoble 1 August 1947 24 June 1999 Lyon 1 September 1905 10 September 1906 First system, Schiemann, located at Charbonnières-les-Bains. 4 September 1935 – See also Trolleybuses in Lyon. Modane - Lanslebourg 20 August 1923 June 1940 Moûtiers – Salins (-les-Thermes) 15 April 1930 March 1965 Saint-Étienne 1 January 1942 System included an interurban line to Firminy.See also Trolleybuses in Saint-Étienne.

Note: The former TVR, or GLT, system in Caen and the Translohr system in Clermont-Ferrand are not listed, as they are not commonly considered to be trolleybus systems,Webb, Mary (ed.) (2009). "World Urban Tram and Light Rail Systems" and "World Urban Trolleybus Systems" (lists). Jane's Urban Transport Systems 2009-2010. Coulsdon, Surrey (UK): Jane's Information Group. . since their vehicles use(d) pantographs to collect current and therefore were not able to operate away from the surface guideway while remaining in electric mode. The GLT vehicles formerly used on the Nancy system, by comparison, were able to do so, as they used trolley poles to collect current, so the Nancy system continued to be considered a trolleybus system during its GLT era.

List of trolleybus systems in France

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