Elbeuf tramway

The Elbeuf tramway was put into service in 1898 in the southern part of the Seine-Inférieure department (now Seine-Maritime) to facilitate the movement of the residents of the textile city of Elbeuf and its working-class suburbs. With its four standard gauge lines, each nine kilometers long and diverging from Place du Calvaire, the network transported up to 1.5 million people, in 1899, at the beginning of the operation.

The management and financial difficulties of the operating company constituted warning signals even before the First World War. The conflict that disrupted the network and the competition from other modes of transportation in the early 1920s worsened the crisis of this tramway, which experienced an early closure in 1926.