TRANSPORTS PASQUIER

Up the hill from Cherbourg to Octeville .........

 

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I only ever once saw a bus belonging to this operator.  That was in 1963 just after Pasquier had stopped operating his only route, and one of his former buses was parked in the old CTC depot yard at Tourlaville.  The bus route went from Cherbourg town centre up the hill to the suburb of Octeville roughly hourly, and could be worked by one vehicle.  At appropriate times the service was extended at the town end to the Arsenal (naval dockyard) for workers, and on Cherbourg market day each Thursday two journeys were extended out in the countryside beyond Octeville to the villages of Héauville and Vasteville.  Pasquier was based at 137 rue Roger-Salengro in Octeville.  
From 19 March 1963 the running of this service passed to the main Cherbourg town operator CTC (Compagnie des Transports de Cherbourg).  Reason for the change of operator is not known, perhaps it was retirement or non-viability.  I remember in the summer of 1963 my carnet of CTC tickets, which I had used that day to and from Équerdreville and Tourlaville, was refused by the CTC bus driver on the Octeville route, and I had to buy a separate ticket from him.  (22nd August 1963 - we flew across for the day from Bournemouth Hurn Airport to Cherbourg Maupertus Airport in a Silver City Airways Bristol 170 car-carrying Superfreighter aircraft - but that's another story). silver city superfreighter

At that time Octeville was a separate municipality to Cherbourg, the two towns not merging into one administrative unit until much later in 2000.  Coincidentally at that time in 2000 the other four communes in the Urban Community of Cherbourg declined to join with Cherbourg into one large administrative unit (La Glacerie, Équerdreville-Hainneville, Querqueville and Tourlaville).


Je n'ai jamais vu qu'un seul autobus appartenant à cet opérateur. C'était en 1963 immédiatement après que Pasquier eut arrêté l'exploitation de sa seule ligne d'autobus, et l'un de ses véhicules était garé dans l'ancien dépôt de la CTC à Tourlaville. L'itinéraire de la ligne reliait le centre-ville de Cherbourg (parfois l'Arsenal militaire) aux hauteurs  d'Octeville.  Le jeudi, jour de marché à Cherbourg, deux services étaient étendus jusqu'à la campagne au delà d'Octeville, pour desservir les villages de Héauville et Vasteville. A partir du 19 mars 1963 l'exploitation de cette ligne est tombée dans le giron de la CTC (Compagnie des Transports de Cherbourg).

 I would be pleased to learn more about this operator if any French readers of this page have further information !

Si les lecteurs français de cette page pouvaient m’apporter des informations complémentaires à propos de cet autocariste, je leur en serais reconnaissant !

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