HISTORY OF "TRAMWAYS DE LA SARTHE" NETWORK

Architecture

Most of the station had been built with inexpensive means. They consisted in a singe shelter-office made of wood or concrete (first batch), ornemental bricks (second batch) or concrete and quarry stones (third batch). Later on, junctions and terminals have been given special treatment.

Alençon had the very outlook of the "chemin de fer de l'Ouest" building.
La Ferté-Bernard, which had been design by the engineer Harel de la Noë, and had a very peculiar architecture, with the ornamental bricks.


La Ferté-Bernard station, in the rococo style, destroyed in 1949. Harel de la Noë designer.	The X shaped bridge at Le Mans seen here with a steam train, was destroyed in 1944. Harel de la Noë designer.

Designed by the same architect, the station of Le Mans was one of the biggest branch line station in France. The whole unit includes a ticket office and its train sheed, the goods store, the running and carriage shed. At the same time he was built the station, this architect, who had worked upon several layouts in Brittany, carried out the X shaped bridge upon the Sarthe river. This constructive work actually consisted in two bridges crossing each over in their middles. The steam train was running on one of them, and the electric urban tramcar was using the other one. This bridge was destroyed by a bombardment in 1944.


The TS Le Mans Station area open the river Sarthe bank. Harel de la Noë designer.	A train stand below TS Le Mans station train shed. Two different batches of ANF Locomotives can be distingued.

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