The TVR Reference Guide

A fact-checked reference guide to the TVR (Transport sur Voie Réservée), France’s guided tram on rubber tyres: its Belgian roots, the Paris trial, Nancy and Caen, the 2001 suspension and the bad week of November 2002, the 2010 government review, and the trams and trolleybuses that replaced it, with a who’s who, a French glossary, an English reading guide to the two official reports and a page on where the sources disagree. Not the British sports car.

What’s inside:

• How to use this guide

• The idea in one page

• Belgian roots, 1975 to 1995

• The Paris trial

• Two cities, two set-ups

• Nancy, 2000 to 2003

• Caen, and the bad week of November 2002

• The steady years and the 2010 review

• Endings and replacements

• People and organisations

• French terms you will meet

• Reading the official reports

• Where the sources disagree

• Timeline at a glance

• Credits, licence & sources

Pages: 16 (including cover and credits). Sizes: A4 (210 × 297 mm) and US Letter (8.5 × 11 in), both PDFs included in one zip.

Printing: Print at 100% / actual size on A4 or US Letter. Inside pages use light backgrounds and print well in black and white; covers are dark, so start from page 2 to save ink.

Every fact is checked against named sources from the French government’s 2003 (CGPC) and 2010 (CGEDD) reports, Railway Gazette International, CBW magazine, Caen la mer, Métropole du Grand Nancy and HESS (checked 9 Nov 2026), and the sources are listed on the pack’s credits page. Things that can change, such as which vehicles run on Nancy’s Line 1, are printed with that date. Where sources give different figures, each is shown with its source.

Photos are from Wikimedia Commons under Creative Commons licences (CC BY-SA 3.0 / 4.0), credited on the credits page; all drawings, charts and layouts are REALLYBYTE’s own. Technical drawings are simplified and not to scale. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Bombardier, Alstom, HESS, Lohr, Keolis, Veolia, Twisto, STAN, Grand Nancy, Caen la mer, RATP or the French government, nor by any photographer or publisher named here. Names are used only to identify the vehicles, organisations and reports discussed. This TVR is the French Transport sur Voie Réservée, not the British sports-car maker.

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