The Poma 2000 in
Laon
Laon () is a city in the Aisne Departments of France, department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.
History
Early history
The Ancient Diocese of Laon, which rises a hundred metres above the otherwise flat Picardy plain, has always held s ...
,
France
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, was an automated guideway transit, a
cable-driven people mover
A people mover or automated people mover (APM) is a type of small-scale automated guideway transit system. The term is generally used only to describe systems serving relatively small areas such as airports, downtown districts or theme parks ...
which ran between the railway station and the city hall. The system was long with a maximum gradient of 13% and an elevation change of .
History
The system opened in 1989, replacing a former
tram
A tram (also known as a streetcar or trolley in Canada and the United States) is an urban rail transit in which Rolling stock, vehicles, whether individual railcars or multiple-unit trains, run on tramway tracks on urban public streets; some ...
line (1899–1971), that used a
rack
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Storage, support and transportation
* Amp rack, a piece of furniture in which amplifiers are mounted
* Autorack or auto carrier, for transporting vehicles in freight trains
* Baker's rack, for bread and other bake ...
for braking but not propulsion. There were three stations. The cars ran on
rubber tyres on a metallic track at a 2.5 min headway. Four vehicles were used by the system, and each of them could carry 33 passengers at a maximum speed of . The maximum capacity was 900 passengers/hour, and most recent ridership before its closure was about 1500 passengers/day.
The system ran every day from 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. from Monday to Saturday and every day in summer. A complete journey on the line from Gare to Hôtel de Ville took 3.5 min.
Citing €19 million maintenance costs and rising local taxes, the Agglomeration Community of Pays de Laon ended the service on 27 August 2016.
Route
See also
* List of rapid transit systems
These lists of urban rail transit systems are sorted by the type of system:
* List of tram and light rail transit systems
* List of town tramway systems
* Medium-capacity rail system
* List of premetro systems
* List of metro systems
* List o ...
References
External links
poma
- Images of the Poma 2000
1989 establishments in France
2016 disestablishments in France
Cable car railways
Laon
People mover systems in France
Railway lines closed in 2016
Railway lines opened in 1989
Rapid transit in France
Rubber-tyred metros
Transport in Hauts-de-France
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