List of cities with trolleybuses

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This is a list of cities with trolleybuses as part of their public transport system.

See also: List of cities that no longer have trolleybuses, List of light-rail transit systems, List of town tramway (urban tramway, streetcar) systems, List of metro systems.

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[edit] Asia

[edit] Armenia

[edit] Azerbaijan

[edit] China

A trolleybus system, opened 1994, has been reported in Nánníng 南宁 (Nanning). Confirmation is lacking.

[edit] Georgia

[edit] Iran

14 September 1992

[edit] Japan

  • Kurobe 黒部:
    • Kan-den Tunnel Trolleybus: (関電トンネルトロリーバス): 1 August 1964. Trolleybuses operate through tunnel between Ōgizawa station (扇沢) and Kurobe Dam 黒部ダム. Ōgizawa station is located in Ōmachi 大町 city, Nagano prefecture.
    • Tateyama Tunnel Trolleybus (立山トンネルトロリーバス): 23 April 1996. Trolleybuses operate through tunnel between Daikambo (大観峰) and Murodō (室堂). The line is located within Tateyama 立山 town, Toyama prefecture.

Both trolleybus lines are part of the Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route 立山黒部アルペンルート which pass the Tyûbusangaku National Park 中部山岳国立公園(Tyûbu is also spelled as Chūbu or Chubu).

[edit] Kazakhstan

[edit] Kyrgyzstan

[edit] Mongolia

[edit] Korea North

It is speculated that additional trolleybus systems are located at the following towns:

Hŭich'ŏn 희천 ( 熙川)

Hyesan 혜산 (惠山)

Kaesŏng 개성 (開城)

Kusŏng 구성 (龜城)

Manpo 만포 (滿浦)

Rajin 라진 (羅津)

Unggi (North Hamgyong province)

Sariwon 리원 (沙里院)

Songrim 송림 (松林) (1993 ?)

Confirmation is lacking.

[edit] Nepal

[edit] Tajikistan

[edit] Turkmenistan

[edit] Uzbekistan

A Russian-language source [1] states that trolleybus systems are under construction in the following locations:

Angren

Chirchiq

Gulistan

Qarshi

Kokand

Navoiy

Termiz

Yangiabad

[edit] Europe

[edit] Austria

[edit] Belarus

Plans were announced in 2001 for new trolleybus systems in:

Baranavičy / Баранавiчы (Baranavichy)

Barysaŭ / Барысаў (Borisov)

Lida / Ліда

Maładečna / Маладэчна (Molodechno)

Navapołacak / Наваполацак (Novopolotsk)

Vorša / Ворша (Orsha)

Pinsk / Пінск

Połacak / Полацак (Polotsk)

Salihorsk / Салігорск (Soligorsk)

[edit] Belgium

[edit] Bosnia-Herzegovina

[edit] Bulgaria

[edit] Czech Republic

[edit] Estonia

[edit] France

TVR opened 28 January 2001, planned to replace dual-mode buses. Operation suspended 9 March 2001 - 13 March 2002 because of technical problems.

Note: TVR, Transport sur Voie Réservée, is the Guided Light Transit guided bus system, marketed as "Trams sur pneus" (trams on tyres). Caen vehicles collect current from a single overhead wire using a pantograph, and return current through the center guide rail. Nancy vehicles collect and return current from twin overhead wires using trolley poles.

[edit] Germany

[edit] Greece

[edit] Hungary

[edit] Italy

[edit] Latvia

[edit] Lithuania

[edit] Moldova

[edit] The Netherlands

[edit] Norway

[edit] Poland

[edit] Portugal

[edit] Romania

[edit] Russia

[edit] Europe

[edit] Asia

[edit] Serbia

[edit] Slovakia

[edit] Sweden

[edit] Switzerland

[edit] Ukraine

[edit] Oceania

[edit] New Zealand

[edit] North America

[edit] Canada

[edit] México

[edit] United States

[edit] California

The initial line was opened by the former Market Street Railway Company (MSR). The San Francisco Municipal Railway ("Muni") opened the city's second trolleybus line on 7 September 1941. MSR was absorbed by Muni on 29 September 1944. Most of the current trolleybus system was built to replace MSR streetcar lines.

[edit] Massachusetts

The historic trolleybus ("trackless trolley") network was built by the Boston Elevated Railway (BERy) and its successor, the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) between 1936 and 1951 to replace streetcar lines. Following a change of management, MTA began replacing trackless trolleys with diesel buses in 1958. Only four lines remained in operation after 1963 (Boston-area trackless trolleys).

The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA), which replaced MTA in 1964, built the (Silver Line).

BERy was owned by private investors but under public control from 1918. It served 13 municipalities of Greater Boston, including Boston proper (see Boston Elevated Railway). The MTA service area was limited to these municipalities (with the addition of Revere). The four remaining lines extend from Harvard station in Cambridge, and do not serve Boston proper.

The historic network had six groups of lines (Clarke):

The Dorchester and Arborway lines were not connected with the remainder of the network, nor with each other.

[edit] Ohio

Dayton was a notable exception to the "typical" U.S. trend of consolidation ("unification") of public transport services. Five companies, owned by private investors, operated streetcar service from 1909 to 1933. Remarkably, all five companies operated trolleybuses for several months in 1940, prior to the beginning of consolidations. The largest company, The City Railway Company (CRC), became The City Transit Company (CTC) and was taken into public ownership by the Miami Valley Regional Transit Authority. MVRTA is known today as the Greater Dayton Regional Transit Authority.

[edit] Pennsylvania

Philadelphia had three groups of trolleybus ("trackless trolley") lines that were not connected with each other. The first line (route 80) operated on Oregon Avenue in South Philadelphia, and was based at Southern Depot. The "Southern Division" received a second line (Route 29, Tasker-Morris) in 1947. Route 80 was replaced by diesel bus in 1961, but Route 79, serving Snyder Avenue, was converted to trackless trolley that same year.

The second line (Route 61 - Ridge Avenue, 1941 - 1960) operated northwestward from Center City Philadelphia, and was the only trackless trolley line to serve Center City.

The three Frankford Division lines (Route 59 - Castor Avenue, Route 66 - Frankford Avenue and Route 75 - Wyoming Avenue) were converted to trackless trolley in 1948 - 1955.

The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority board voted on 26 June 2003 to suspend trackless trolley operation for one year, because of a shortage of operating funds. Trackless trolleys had been replaced by diesel buses on routes 29, 66 and 75 from 16 June 2002 because of reconstruction of Frankford Depot. Route 29 was also being operated temporarily by diesel buses. Route 79 trackless trolleys were replaced by diesel buses from 3 June 2003. SEPTA has new trackless trolleys on order for the three Frankford Division lines, and service is scheduled to resume in 2007. A second group of vehicles would be required for restoration of trackless trolley service on the two Southern Division lines.

[edit] Washington

(All overhead wires and other infrastructure were replaced during 1978 - 1979, together with vehicles.)

Dual-mode diesel-trolley buses operated 15 September 1990 - 2004 on routes using the Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel.

[edit] South America

[edit] Argentina

[edit] Brazil

[edit] Chile

[edit] Ecuador

[edit] Venezuela

  • Barquisimeto ("Transbarca", opening planned by the end of 2006)
  • Mérida ("Trolmérida", opening planned by the end of 2006)

[edit] See also

[edit] Books

Clarke, Bradley H. 1970. "Trackless Trolleys of Boston, The" (no ISBN). Cambridge (MA), US: Boston Street Railway, Inc (Bulletin 18).

Gregoris, Paolo. 2003. "Giro d'Italia in filobus" (ISBN 88-7785-193-7). Cortona: Editore Calosci.

Mackinger, Gunter. 1979. "Obus in Österreich" (ISBN 3-900134-62-6). (Eisenbahn-Sammelheft Nr. 16.) Wien: Verlag Slezak.

Millar, Sean. 1986. "Trolleybuses in New Zealand" (ISBN 0-908726-20-1). Auckland: Millar Publishing.

Murray, Alan. 2001. "World Trolleybus Encyclopaedia" (ISBN 0-904245-18-1). Yateley, Hampshire, UK: Trolleybooks.

Peschkes, Robert. "World Gazetteer of Tram, Trolleybus, and Rapid Transit Systems."

Part One, Latin America (ISBN 1-898319-02-2). 1980. Exeter, UK: Quail Map Company.

Part Two, Asia+USSR / Africa / Australia (ISBN 0-948619-00-7). 1987. London: Rapid Transit Publications.

Part Three, Europe (ISBN 0-948619-01-5). 1993. London: Rapid Transit Publications.

Part Four, North America (ISBN 0-948619-06-6). 1998. London: Rapid Transit Publications.

Sebree, Mac, and Paul Ward. 1974. "The Trolley Coach in North America" (Interurbans Special 59). (ASIN: B0006CEBZC) Los Angeles: Interurbans. Los Angeles: Interurbans.

Straßenbahnatlas ehem. Sowjetunion / Tramway Atlas of the former USSR (ISBN 3-926524-15-4). 1996. Berlin: Arbeitsgemeinschaft Blickpunkt Straßenbahn, in conjunction with Light Rail Transit Association, London.

"Straßenbahnatlas Rumänien" (compiled by Andreas Günter, Sergei Tarknov and Christian Blank; ISBN 3-926524-23-5). 2004. Berlin: Arbeitsgemeinschaft Blickpunkt Straßenbahn.

Tarkhov, Sergei. 2000. "Empire of the Trolleybus: Vol 1 -- Russia" (ISBN 0-948619-02-3). London: Rapid Transit Publications.

吉川文夫 (Yoshikawa, Fumio). 1995.　日本のトロリーバス (Nippon no "trolleybus") (ISBN 4-88548-066-3). Tokyo: kk Denkisha-kenkyûkai.

[edit] Periodicals

"Trolleybus Magazine" (ISSN 0266-7452). National Trolleybus Association (UK). Bimonthly.

Tarkhov, Sergei and Dmitriy Merzlov. "North Korean Surprises - Part 3." (Trolleybus Magazine No. 246, November-December 2002).

[edit] External links

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