CARS GRIS ARCANGIOLI
Les Autos Cars Gris - The Grey Buses - along the coast from Fécamp to Le Havre
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CARS GRIS ARCANGIOLI
Les Autos Cars Gris - The Grey Buses - along the coast from Fécamp to Le Havre |
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| Older
readers might just possibly remember the town of
Fécamp
as the home of
the pre-war commercial station Radio Normandie. The town has
also been the
home of the grey buses of the Arcangioli brothers for many
years. The
family had been in the transport business in Grasse (in
Alpes-Maritimes) in the south of France since 1913 and subsequently
Oscar Arcangioli founded Autos-Cars Gris at Fécamp in 1931. The very
first route, using two small buses, ran four times a day each way
between Saint-Pierre-en-Port and Fécamp from 11th June. A twice daily
service through Etretat to the
port
city of Le Havre at the mouth of the River Seine started on 1st
October. In February two more Arcangioli brothers joined with Oscar,
these were Pierre and Septime. By the end of 1932 there were twenty
vehicles (typically with 21 seats) and three
main routes which included two different routes from Fécamp
to Le Havre - the original one
by the coast via Etretat and Sainte Adresse, the other inland via
Goderville and
Montivilliers. The third principal route ran
from Fécamp through Bolbec and Lillebonne to Notre Dame de
Gravenchon. Mobilisation at the outbreak of war meant loss of both vehicles and drivers, and there were instances of buses coming under fire in their daily duties. The bus station at Le Havre was destroyed by bombardent in May 1942. Services were restored after the liberation with twenty four buses serving the three main routes with a frequency of 14 departures each way via Etretat to Le Havre; 11 via Goderville to Le Havre; and 5 to Bolbec and Gravenchon. By 1956 there was a staff of 50, of whom 22 were drivers. Typical seating capacity of the vehicles had now risen to 45 places, and they were carrying more than a million passengers a year. In later years a fourth route linked Fécamp to Yvetot station. A fast 'Rapid Bus" service linked Fécamp to Le Havre from 1987, reducing the journey time to 45 minutes, with just one intermediate stop at Goderville. This was discontinued in 2007 when the Seine Maritime département introduced their 2 euros anywhere flat fare scheme on the interurban bus routes throughout their administrative area. The Autos Cars Gris company is no longer owned by the Arcangioli family, it was sold by Benoit Arcangioli (Oscar's son) some years ago in 1992/93 (other sources say 1995) to the SNCF railway bus company Cariane. They later merged with Via-GTI to form the Keolis group, who control many French urban and interurban transport operations. In 2002 Autocars Gris of Fecamp employed 154 staff and had a fleet of 101 vehicles. |
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Nos plus vieux lecteurs se souviennnent
probablement de
la ville de
Fécamp comme ayant été le
berceau de
la station de TSF Radio Normandie qui a connu sa
période de
gloire dans les années 1930. La cité a
aussi servi de base aux autobus gris de la
société
Arcangioli pendant de nombreuses années. Née
en 1931 à Fécamp par Oscar Arcangioli, cette
compagnie exploitait trois lignes principales.
Celles-ci
incluaient deux lignes différentes entre Fécamp
et la
ville portuaire du Havre, à
l'embouchure de la Seine - l'une par la côte via Etretat et
Sainte-Adresse,
et l'autre par les terres via Goderville et Montivilliers. La
troisième ligne allait de
Fécamp à Notre-Dame-de-Gravenchon par
Bolbec et
Lillebonne, tandis qu'un
quatrième service, créé plus
tardivement reliera Fécamp à la gare
d'Yvetot. La société n'est plus aujourd'hui propriété de la famille Arcangioli. Elle a était vendue en 1992-93 par Benoit Arcangioli (fils d'Oscar) au transporteur Cariane, filiale de la SNCF, lequel fusionnera par la suite avec la Via-GTI pour devenir le groupe Keolis. En 2002 les Autocars Gris de Fécamp employaient 154 salariés et entretenaient une flotte de 101 véhicules. |
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1973 timetable |
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1999 timetables |
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Update to map - by the time of the September 2006 timetable route 22 had been curtailed at Bolbec and no longer served Lillebonne or Gravenchon. There is also a route 17 - with limited days and times of operation to provide train connections - from Etretat via Goderville to Bréauté-Beuzeville rail station (which is located a few miles north of Bolbec on route 22). |
| Mise
à jour Septembre 2006 - la ligne 22 a été réduite à Bolbec et ne
servait plus Lillebonne ou Gravenchon. Il ya aussi une ligne 17 - avec
des jours et heures d'exploitationlimités pour fournir des connexions
train - d'Etretat par Goderville à Bréauté-Beuzeville gare SNCF (qui se
trouve à quelques kilometres au nord de Bolbec sur la ligne 22). |
| Further update September 2007 - the operation of
routes 17,
22, 23 and 24 has passed from Cars Gris to Cars Perier of
Lillebonne.
Route 25 to Yvetot is still operated by
Keolis-Cars Gris,
who have also taken over route 30 from Le Havre via Bolbec and
Lillebonne to Caudebec-en-Caux (the western part of the former CNA
through
route from Le Havre to Rouen, severed into two halves at Caudebec some
years ago). Update August 2011 - since 1st August, lines 17, 20
(Le Havre - Caudebec), 22, 23 and 24 are operated by Kéolis, Cars
Perier and VTNI who decided to jointly share the tender result. |
| Autres
mise
à jour. Septembre 2007 - l'exploitation des lignes 17, 22,
23 et 24
passent de Cars Gris à Cars Périer de Lillebonne. Ligne 25 vers Yvetot
reste en exploitation par Keolis-Cars Gris, qui ont également repris la
ligne 30 au départ du Havre via Bolbec et Lillebonne à Caudebec-en-Caux
(la partie occidentale de l'ancienne ligne de la CNA du Havre à Rouen,
coupé en deux moitiés à Caudebec il ya quelques années).
Aout 2011 - depuis le 1er aout, les lignes 17, 20 (Le Havre -
Caudebec), 22, 23 et 24 sont effectuée par Kéolis, Cars Périer et VTNI
qui ont décider de se partager le marché conjointement. |
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