France

Operating or Under Construction

Angers
Bordeaux
Bourg-St. Maurice-Les Arc
Caen
Clermont-Ferrand
Grenoble
Laon
Le Mans
Leyman
Lille
Lyon
Marseille 
Mont Blanc
Montpellier
Mulhouse
Nancy
Nantes
Nice
Orleans
Paris
Rennes
Rouen
Saint-Etienne (Paris)
Strassbourg
Tignes
Toulon
Toulouse
Val d'Isere
Ville Valenciennes
Villefranche-La Tour de Carol

Planned

Brest
Dijon
Douai
Dunkerque
Fort-de-France (Martinique)
Le Havre
Reims
Tours

Honorable Mention
La Rochelle
Loire Region
Marne
 

Welcome to France, known worldwide as the home of theVAL. Initially, VAL stood for Villeneuve d'Asque a Lille, the place were the first trial runs took place in the 1970s. Afterwards they were lucky because the three letters could also stand for vehicules automatique légere.

Honorable Mention Dept.: There is one more system, not a whole  rubber-tyred tram but a bus with some tram functions. This is the TVM (transport de Valle de Marne). This is really a bus with a separated alley for the traffic. On some sections, the bus's catenary rises and puts a contacting beam into the slit in the road to serve as the earth contact, writhng with netallic pleasure as waves of hot electricity surge through uts lines in anticipation of acceleration, offering its beam to the open, acceptnig... Oh, sorry. . .I keep forgetting I'm in France.

The New New Electric Railway Journal: Light Rail Renaissance in France
Wikipedia Tramways In France
FACS la boite à photos des tramways français - Photos of French tramways and other systems
FACS-UNECTO - Sommaires des parutions dans CFRU
French Urban Transport Society, complete with photos
TRAM 2000 - a French and Belgian traction magazine
Jean-Bat's Tramways en France
LES TRAMWAYS EN FRANCE by Dr.-Ing. Christoph Groneck - a five star site
French Funiculars (in French), includes the St. Just funicular subway, Lyon's metro Line F, Loan's funicular metro and Thaon "telemetro"
ERS images, includes Paris (Val de Seine and Saint-Denis / Bobigny)
Revue CHEMINS DE FER REGIONAUX ET URBAINS - superb converage of urban transport in France
"Train Jaune" - electric tourist train between La Tour de Carol and Villefranche-Vernet Les Bains
CCG - Private French interurban


Chemins de Fer Corses - Private French  narrow gague railway on the island of Corsica

Savoie - a private chemin de fer that looks a big LRT
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Lestramways électriques de Versailles - a short movie
Les Chemins - a rich site on French urban transport
Le Gart - French public transport links