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CARS GRIS ARCANGIOLI 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 company for many years. The company, founded in 1913, ran three main routes. These included two different routes from Fécamp to the port city of Le Havre at the mouth of the River Seine - one by the coast via Etretat and Sainte Adresse, the other inland via Goderville and Montivilliers. The third route ran from Fécamp through Bolbec and Lillebonne to Notre Dame de Gravenchon, whilst a newer fourth route linked Fécamp to Yvetot station. The company is no longer owned by the Arcangioli family. It was sold some years ago in 1992/93 to the SNCF railway bus company Cariane, which 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.
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 1913, 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 serice, 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 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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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). |
| 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 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). |
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