Une Petite Vacance En France (1)

… and returned c/o Condor on one of those super sleek wave piercer catamarans.

The ferry terminus at Cherbourg …

… is obviously a deep water facility, but too its left you can espy the entrance to the traditional harbour.

The boy plus wife booked an airbnb (which, much to fbb’s eternal chagrin, do not ever serve b – which makes it a daft name. And they all have a roof and are not open to the air!) a pace or two to the east of the tradition Harbour. Joining to two halves of the harbourside is the Pont Tournant.

… with one if these at the front.

So the first swing bridge carried a single track for the trams and presumably what little road traffic there was.

This was then widened to double track.

Readers may like to keep their eyes on the building on the left on the far bank. This was the office, rest room and operating room for the bridge.

… and the swing bridge was equipped with framework and wiring to ensure electrical continuity when open to the trams.

This was similar to the set-up we saw a while back over the Forth Clyde canal in Glasgow. 

Here is a closer look …

… with the swing bridge swung.

… and here to the swing bridge.

Trams never ran again after 1944. The bridge was, of course, rebuilt sans overhead …

… and buses replaced trams …

… having been introduced earlier serving the “outer suburbs”

But the name remained nearly the same with one change also beginning with “T”.!

… which us now bereft of traffic …

… and appears to have been demoted to a Tourist Information Centre. A much larger Town Hall is located nearby.

But it still swings and the “cottage” HQ still stands.