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City trams in Belgium

There are / have been city tramways (other than NMVB lines) in the following places in Belgium:

[Antwerpen] [Gent] [Brussels] [Charleroi] [Liège] [Verviers]

 

City trams in : Verviers

Verviers is a small city with (around 1880) about 80.000 inhabitants. It is situated on the river Vesdre. There was some wool processing industries in the city.

In 1884 two horse tram lines were opened in Verviers. For these, see the page about the horse tram in Verviers. The company was the "Tramways Verviétois" which was founded on 24 september 1883 afther which the horse tramway started on 1 july 1884.

 

Electric tram

In 1900 the two horse tram lines in the city were replaced by electric trams. In the same year a new line to Heusy (south of Verviers) was opened. Later on some more lines were opened

The line to Heusy was also used by the NMVB-tram line to Spa. That line started on 1909-08-03 and was closed in 1952-06-30.

The line to Renoupré was also used by the NMVB tram to Eupen. That line started on 1933-05-15 and was closed on 1956-02-20.

 

Maps

network horst tram Verviers
 

Lines

LineOpenedClosedRoute
11900-03-13  1969-12-31  Verviers - Renoupré
11900-04 1969-12-31Verviers - Ensival Purgatoire
11912-08-151962 Ensival Purgatoire - Pepinster Pont Lefin
11912-09-011962 Pepinster Pont Lefin - Pepinster Rue Golettes
11912-12-011962 Pepinster Rue Golettes - Pepinster Maire
 
21900-03-131963 Verviers - Dison
21903-11-291963 Dison - Petit Rechain
21907-08-151963 Verviers - Stembert
 
31900-04-011969-12-31Verviers - Heusy
 
51907-08-151958 Verviers - Mangombroux
51928 1958 Verviers - Andrimont
 
61933 1969-12-31Heusy - Verviers - Deportes

The line to Heusy was extended by the NMVB to Spa in 1909. The TV made exploitation of that line from 1911 to 1920. In that year the NMVB did exploitation of the line from Heusy to Spa itself, passengers had to change in Heusy. In 1920 trams of NMVB went over the tracks of TV to the railway station.

The depot for the electric lines of TV was situated in the eastern side of the city on line 1 near Reoupre.

Shortly after the NMVB closed the line from Verviers to Spa in 1952 and the line to Eupen in 1956, the closure of the TV-lines started:

  • Line 5 (Andrimont - Centre - Mangombroux) closed in 1958.
  • Line 1 (part Ensival - Pepinster) closed in 1962.
  • Line 2 (Stembert - Centre - Rechain) closed in 1963.
  • The last line in Verviers was closed on 31 december 1969.

In 1960 the TV was included in a new company VTC, which was included into the STIV in 1961.

 

Rolling Stock

For me the list of rolling stock is not yet complete, some pieces are unknown to me. Below you find what is known to me:

Motor coaches
Numbers31-3857-5961-7277-8788-97
Amount83121110
Year built1928191219001937?
FactoryGerSenMetEloi?
Length?????
Distance axles?????
Power?2 x 40 hp???
Weight?????
Seated?20???
Standing?48???
Typeclosedclosedclosedclosedclosed
    Ger = Ateliers de Germain, Moncequ-sur Sambre
    Sen = Ateliers de Seneffe, Godarville
    Niv = Ateliers Métallurgiques de Nivelles
    Eloi = Ateliers Saint-Eloi, Edingen
Trailer coaches
Numbers41-48
Amount8
Year built1928
FactoryGer
Length?
Distance axles?
Weight?
Seated18
Standing26
Typeclosed
 

Fotos


foto: motor wagon 57 in the Musée des Transports en commun de Wallonie in Liège

foto: trailer wagon 44 in the Musée des Transports en commun de Wallonie in Liège
 

Postcards

 

More information

More information can be found on the page of the Tramways Verviétois on Wikipedia.


 
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