Nice Trams! I finally pick up the InterRail catalogue once again, starting with the trams of Nice, Southern France. Royalty-Free Music: incompetech.com/music/
Those trams are ace, When I was on them a Woman brought her cat in a rucsack on the tram and a woman brought a Massive Microwave on the tram right in the middle of rush hour 😂
Those short strips at 18:00 min are a third rail system. In Sydney, they put one short strip after another. A short strip is only live while the train passes over.
FYI Line 2&3 have no wires because they didn't want to pollute the view with wires. At each stations there are quick charging "3rd rail" (what you show in pictures) + the team's battery recharge each time the driver slows down.
We have a 1600 m no-wires section on the Sydney CBD tram line - they used a third rail which cost about $200 m to install due to moving the electricity mains. Our silly government refused the battery option.
At 17:50 "I wonder if these have anything to do with it" To answer you, the Nice trams line 2 runs completely without overhead wiring outside the tunnel. In that situation, it runs with supercapacitors and an emergency battery in case the supercapacitors run out of juice. Those "magnets" you see at the tram stops are the power supply and when the tram calls at that stop, then it is directly stopped with a contact shoe on those charging points. It's a tactic that was developed by Alstom for this line named the SRS and allows charging in just 20 seconds at every station that is equipped with it. You'd also notice that the junction between lines 2 and 3 being a potentially long stop waiting for a tram to come through, the slot in front of the junction signal also has those.
I recently visited Nice in April this year, I really liked how efficient the service was, I had never had to wait more that 5-10 minutes each time I wanted to use the tram. Also, a nice touch is the different voices announcing the stops names and the lo-fi or instrumental music within the anouncements. The only downside is that it can get absurdly crowded even on slow days.
It has been over 12 years since I visited Nice. My youth hostel was closest to Jean Médecin. I think between Masséna and Cathédrale / Vielle Ville, line 1 runs with the pantographs down, from what I remember. There was a terminus called Las Planas but I think it was since renamed to Henri Sappia.
Yes - there was a small internal tramway system within Monaco 🇲🇨 that later joined up with the Nice tramway system in France 🇫🇷! I found out about it by accident while researching the railways of the European micro states. There are some good photos of trams 🚋 outside the Casino in Monte Carlo.
You will note the trams are slow when they do an 'S' movement as the radius is small and thus the forces to flip the train high, or alternatively, catch on something and come off the rails.
fun fact about the trams from line 2 is that when there were the yellow vest protests, its designer came to nice to protect what he called "its baby" from the riots.
Trams in Nice are amazing. Unfortunately always packed and most people do not pay attention to public transportation etiquette. Even Paris does this better…
How can you adopt a policy that targets the tourist industry that Nice relies on. Purposely targeting tourists who don’t know having purchased a tram ticket it’s in valid until you scan it. Then employ storm troopers to intimidate and take your passport unless you pay the €40 fine. This is shameful and now I will do my utmost to ensure this is widely communicated. Shame on you
Nice trams in Nice..
very Nice😂
Nice to see a vidéo of my home town! Cheers from France!...
Those trams are ace, When I was on them a Woman brought her cat in a rucsack on the tram and a woman brought a Massive Microwave on the tram right in the middle of rush hour 😂
Those short strips at 18:00 min are a third rail system. In Sydney, they put one short strip after another. A short strip is only live while the train passes over.
FYI Line 2&3 have no wires because they didn't want to pollute the view with wires. At each stations there are quick charging "3rd rail" (what you show in pictures) + the team's battery recharge each time the driver slows down.
In the tunnel there are wires on line T2
When I go to Nice and see the trams, I'll say "Regarde il y a une rame de tramway!"
What a lovely place. We've fighting for a tramway here in Manila!
We have a 1600 m no-wires section on the Sydney CBD tram line - they used a third rail which cost about $200 m to install due to moving the electricity mains. Our silly government refused the battery option.
The 2000s called, they want their video graphics back
Excellent video, I especially like the tram ones.
Nice NIce trams. Happy New Year to you and all. Cheers
At 17:50 "I wonder if these have anything to do with it"
To answer you, the Nice trams line 2 runs completely without overhead wiring outside the tunnel. In that situation, it runs with supercapacitors and an emergency battery in case the supercapacitors run out of juice. Those "magnets" you see at the tram stops are the power supply and when the tram calls at that stop, then it is directly stopped with a contact shoe on those charging points.
It's a tactic that was developed by Alstom for this line named the SRS and allows charging in just 20 seconds at every station that is equipped with it. You'd also notice that the junction between lines 2 and 3 being a potentially long stop waiting for a tram to come through, the slot in front of the junction signal also has those.
I recently visited Nice in April this year, I really liked how efficient the service was, I had never had to wait more that 5-10 minutes each time I wanted to use the tram.
Also, a nice touch is the different voices announcing the stops names and the lo-fi or instrumental music within the anouncements.
The only downside is that it can get absurdly crowded even on slow days.
It has been over 12 years since I visited Nice. My youth hostel was closest to Jean Médecin. I think between Masséna and Cathédrale / Vielle Ville, line 1 runs with the pantographs down, from what I remember. There was a terminus called Las Planas but I think it was since renamed to Henri Sappia.
It would be good if the Nice trams ran all the way to Monaco again like the used to 100 odd years ago!
Never knew that!
Yes - there was a small internal tramway system within Monaco 🇲🇨 that later joined up with the Nice tramway system in France 🇫🇷! I found out about it by accident while researching the railways of the European micro states. There are some good photos of trams 🚋 outside the Casino in Monte Carlo.
Nice i love those trams
If it is but a "short" train journey between Paris and Nice, it must have been massively speeded-up since I last did it.
Danke
Similar to the system in central Bordeaux, where there are no wires. Brilliant idea and preserves world heritage sites from the knitting
Birmingham has a section like that too.
I wish I could speak in my clips of Nice but one time I would
You will note the trams are slow when they do an 'S' movement as the radius is small and thus the forces to flip the train high, or alternatively, catch on something and come off the rails.
Nice Nice trams indeed!
Nice twinned with Blackpool. 0:12
Super vidéo mais tu pourras nous montrer la ligne 3 silteplait
They really are Nice Nice trams
Nice Nice Video...!!!
Gutes Video
fun fact about the trams from line 2 is that when there were the yellow vest protests, its designer came to nice to protect what he called "its baby" from the riots.
il y a aussi un nouveau tram rouge sans fil
The trams look awfully crowded. I hope we never go back to being packed in like sardines like this!!
Free electricity by Atoms
Nothing is free in this world. Atoms at least is good for the environment.
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Yep, forgot to add that in. Whoops
Trams in Nice are amazing. Unfortunately always packed and most people do not pay attention to public transportation etiquette. Even Paris does this better…
*Parisians have better train etiquette awareness
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Hi umm I’m kinda from nice and I just wanna say terrible pronunciations and it isn’t a short train ride from Paris.
This is recent? 😮 no masks anywhere lol
November 2019. A different era!
@@DavidFrankal ah okay. My bad. Nice video tho 👍🏻👍🏻
Looks like the domografics of this city changet in the last 50 years 🤮
Quite, lots of rich Russians
How can you adopt a policy that targets the tourist industry that Nice relies on. Purposely targeting tourists who don’t know having purchased a tram ticket it’s in valid until you scan it. Then employ storm troopers to intimidate and take your passport unless you pay the €40 fine. This is shameful and now I will do my utmost to ensure this is widely communicated. Shame on you