List of trolleybus systems in France
This is a list of trolleybus systems in France by région. It includes all trolleybus systems, past and present.
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| Name of System | Location | Date | Date | Notes |
| Gleislose Bahn Mühlhausen | Mulhouse | 9 Oct 1908 | 14 July 1918 | See also :fr:Trolleybus de Mulhouse|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. |
| Gleislose Bahn Mühlhausen | Mulhouse | 5 Jul 1946 | 1968 | See also :fr:Trolleybus de Mulhouse|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. |
| Strasbourg | 27 May 1939 | 31 Mar 1962 |
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| Name of System | Location | Date | Date | Notes |
| Bordeaux | May 1940 | 1954 |
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| Name of System | Location | Date | Date | Notes |
| Dijon | 7 Jan 1950 | 30 Mar 1966 |
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| Name of System | Location | Date | Date | Notes |
| Brest | 29 July 1947 | 1970 | ||
| Saint-Malo | 1906 | 5 Jun 1907 | Lombard-Gerin. | |
| Saint-Malo | 10 Jul 1948 | 30 Sep 1959 | Lombard-Gerin. |
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| Name of System | Location | Date | Date | Notes |
| Tours | 5 Oct 1947 | 29 Jun 1968 |
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| Name of System | Location | Date | Date | Notes |
| Belfort | 4 Jul 1952 | 1 Aug 1972 |
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| Name of System | Location | Date | Date | Notes |
| Le Havre | 1 Aug 1947 | 28 Dec 1970 | ||
| Rouen | 2 Jan 1933 | 26 Jun 1970 |
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| Name of System | Location | Date | Date | Notes |
| Fontainebleau | 12 Jun 1901 | 30 Aug 1913 | Lombard_Gerin. First commercial trolleybus route. | |
| Paris | 2 Aug 1900 | 12 Nov 1900 | at Vincennes, Lombard-Gerin. | |
| Paris | 1912 | 1914 | at Saint-Mandé. Mercedes-Stoll. Also Jan 1922 demonstration. | |
| ♦ Vitry-sur-Seine | 7 Apr 1925 | 8 Jul 1935 | ||
| ♦ Porte de Champerret – Bezons / Argenteuil | 8 Jan 1943 | 31 Mar 1962 | ||
| ♦ Porte de Choisy – Choisy-le-Roi and Porte d'Italie – Thiais | 16 Jan 1950 | 31 Mar 1966 |
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| Name of System | Location | Date | Date | Notes |
| Nîmes – Remoulins | 10 Jul 1924 | 31 Dec 1927 | ||
| Perpignan | 21 Sep 1952 | Jun 1968 |
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| Name of System | Location | Date | Date | Notes |
| Limoges | 14 Jul 1943 | See also Trolleybuses in Limoges. |
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| Name of System | Location | Date | Date | Notes |
| Forbach | 19 May 1951 | 1 Nov 1969 | ||
| Metz | 14 Sep 1947 | 30 Apr 1966 | ||
| Nancy | 27 Sep 1982 | Dual-mode operation until about 2000. See note. |
- Note for Nancy: TVR opened 28 Jan 2001, replacing dual-mode bus operation. Operation suspended 9 Mar 2001 - 13 Mar 2002 because of technical problems. TVR, Transport sur Voie Réservée, is the Guided Light Transit system, using a centre guide rail and marketed as "Trams sur pneus". In Nancy, TVR surface guidance only covers a portion of the route, and the vehicles are able to operate away from the guide rail in electric mode, using trolley poles, and thus the system is trolleybus, despite the Nancy operator's marketing it as the tram. TVR systems elsewhere use pantographs, and consequently are not commonly regarded as trolleybus systems.
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| Name of System | Location | Date | Date | Notes |
| Montauban | Jan 1903 | 1904 | Lombard-Gerin. |
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| Name of System | Location | Date | Date | Notes |
| Le Mans | 13 Nov 1947 | 1969 |
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| Name of System | Location | Date | Date | Notes |
| Amiens | 1946 | Feb 1963 |
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| Name of System | Location | Date | Date | Notes |
| Poitiers | 9 Aug 1943 | 3 Mar 1965 |
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| Name of System | Location | Date | Date | Notes |
| Aubagne – Cuges-les-Pins | 19 Sep 1927 | 20 Jul 1958 | ||
| Marseille | 13 Jun 1903 | 1 Sep 1905 | First system, Lombard-Gerin, connected Allauch and La Rose. | |
| Marseille | 26 Apr 1942 | 25 Jun 2004 | Second system included an interurban line to Aix-en-Provence. | |
| Nice | 30 Apr 1942 | 12 Sep 1970 | ||
| Toulon | 7 May 1949 | 19 Feb 1973 |
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| Name of System | Location | Date | Date | Notes |
| Chambéry | 6 Oct 1930 | Jun 1940 | ||
| Grenoble | 1 Aug 1947 | 24 Jun 1999 | ||
| Lyon | 1 September 1905 | 10 September 1906 | First system, Schiemann, located at Charbonnières-les-Bains. | |
| Lyon | 4 Sep 1935 | – | See also Trolleybuses in Lyon. | |
| Modane - Lanslebourg | 20 Aug 1923 | Jun 1940 | ||
| Moûtiers – Salins | 15 Apr 1930 | Mar 1965 | ||
| Saint-Étienne | 1 Jan 1942 | System included an interurban line to Firminy. See also Trolleybuses in Saint-Étienne. |
- Note: The TVR, or GLT, system in Caen and the Translohr system in Clermont-Ferrand are not listed, as they not commonly considered to be trolleybus systems, since their vehicles use pantographs to collect current and therefore are not able to operate away from the surface guideway while remaining in electric mode. The GLT vehicles in Nancy, by comparison, are able to do so, as they use trolley poles to collect current, so the Nancy system is considered to be a trolleybus system.
Books and periodicals
- Bruce, Ashley. Lombard-Gerin and Inventing the Trolleybus Trolleybooks, 2017,.
- Murray, Alan. World Trolleybus Encyclopaedia. Reading, Berkshire, UK: Trolleybooks. .
- Trolleybus Magazine, various issues. National Trolleybus Association. Bimonthly. ISSN 0266-7452.