List of trolleybus systems

This is a list of cities where trolleybuses operate, or operated in the past, as part of the public transport system. The original list has been divided to improve user-friendliness and to reduce article size. Separate lists—separate articles in Wikipedia—have been made for the following countries:

Europe (Note: countries not listed here are included in this article; see Contents table below)

- France
- Germany
- Italy
- Russia
- Spain
- Switzerland
- Ukraine
- United Kingdom

North America
- Canada
- United States
South America
- Brazil

This page also provides references and links for all parts of the list.

1 Africa
2 Asia
3 Europe
4 Oceania
5 North America
6 South America
7 See also
8 References
9 Books
10 Periodicals
11 External links

Africa

Algeria

Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
el-Jazair ولاية الجزائ /Algiers	- 1934	- 1974	Construction started 1914, not completed. -
Qusantînah قسنطينة /Constantine	- 1921	- 1963 (?)	Construction started 1914, not completed. -
Wahran وهران /Oran	17 May 1939	1969 (?)

Egypt

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	el-Qāhirah القاهرة‎ /Cairo	1950	22 Oct 1981

Ethiopia

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Addis Ababa			Planned, see note.

Note: Rus Afro Trolleybus Company, backed by Ethiopian and Russian investors, announced in January 2008 that it would "shortly" begin trial operation with two vehicles imported from Russia. The company is building a trolleybus assembly factory at Debre Marqos.^[1]

Morocco

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	ad-Dār al-Bayḍāʼ الدار البيضاء /Casablanca	1932	May 1972
	Tétouan تطوان /Tetouan	Apr 1950	Nov 1975	Suburban line to Martil.

South Africa

Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
Bloemfontein	16 Dec 1915	Oct 1937
Boksburg	25 Mar 1914	10 Oct 1925
Cape Town	1930 21 Dec 1935	- 28 Feb 1964	Demonstration -
Durban	24 Feb 1935	11 Apr 1968
Germiston	19 Aug 1914	1918
Johannesburg	1930 26 Aug 1936	- 10 Jan 1986	Demonstration. -
Pretoria	1 Jul 1939	21 Feb 1972

Tunisia

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Tūnis تونس /Tunis	1945	1970

Asia

Afghanistan

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Kabul کابل	Feb 1979	1993	Closed because of war damage. Reopening was planned (2003),^[2]^[3] but never came to fruition.

Armenia

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Gyumri Գյումրի	29 Nov 1962	Autumn? - Winter? 2005
	Yerevan Երեւան	15 Aug 1949		See Trolleybuses in Yerevan.

Azerbaijan

Location	Date (From)	Date (To)
Bakı /Baku	5 Dec 1941	30 Jun 2006
Gəncə /Ganja	1 May 1955	Autumn? 2004
Mingaçevir /Mingachevir	15 Apr 1989	31 Mar 2006
Nakhichevan City	3 Nov 1986	April 2004^[4]
Sumqayıt /Sumqayit	28 Apr 1961	31 Dec 2005

China

Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
Ānshān 鞍山 /Anshan	1 January 1975	1 July 2000
Běijīng 北京 /Beijing	26 February 1957
Běnxī 本溪 /Benxi	1 July 1960	1 May 1998
Chángchūn 长春 /Changchun	1 July 1960	1 May 2001
Chéngdū 成都 /Chengdu	1 January 1962	10 January 1996
Chóngqìng 重庆 /Chongqing	24 December 1955	23 May 2004
Dàlián 大连 /Dalian	1 October 1960
Fúzhōu 福州 /Fuzhou	28 September 1983	14 March 2001
Guǎngzhōu 广州 /Guangzhou	30 September 1960
Hángzhōu 杭州 /Hangzhou	26 April 1961
Hā'ěrbīn 哈尔滨 /Harbin	31 December 1958	26 June 2008
Jílín 吉林 /Jilin	1 October 1960	2000
Jǐnán 济南 /Jinan	1 January 1977		See Trolleybuses in Jinan.
Lánzhōu 兰州 /Lanzhou	1 January 1959	6 May 2008
Luòyáng 洛阳 /Luoyang	1 October 1984
Nánchāng 南昌 /Nanchang	1 July 1971	20 June 2009
Nánjīng 南京 /Nanjing	1 August 1960	10 January 1996
Qīngdǎo 青岛 /Qingdao	21 October 1960
Qíqíhā'ěr 齐齐哈尔 /Qiqihar	16 February 1959	14 March 2002
Shànghǎi 上海 /Shanghai	15 November 1914		See Trolleybuses in Shanghai.
Shěnyáng 沈阳 /Shenyang	1 November 1951	20 June 1999
Tàiyuán 太原 /Taiyuan	1 May 1960
Tiānjīn 天津 /Tianjin	1 July 1951	15 July 1995
Tiānshuǐ 天水 /Tianshui	1 October 1959	1961
Wǔhàn 武汉 /Wuhan	20 September 1958
Xī'ān 西安 /Xi'an	1 October 1959	14 January 2009
Zhèngzhōu 郑州 /Zhengzhou	1 May 1979	15 January 2010

Georgia

Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
Batumi ბათუმი	6 November 1978	2005?	Included two interurban lines to Makhinjauri and Khelvachauri.
Chiatura ჭიათურა	7 November 1967	Summer? 2008	Interurban line to Sachkhere საჩხერე.
Gori გორი	1 May 1972	24(?) March 2010	Included interurban line to Tiniskhidi village.
(Kobuleti ქობულეთი)			see note.
Kutaisi ქუთაისი	11 September 1949	Summer? 2009	Service suspended 14 January 2007 - November 2007
Ozurgeti ოზურგეთი	28 November 1980	Spring? 2006	Included interurban line to Dvabzu village.
Poti ფოთი	9 May 1981	Winter? 2004	Included interurban line to Maltakva village.
Rustavi რუსთავი	16 February 1971	24 September 2009
Samtredia სამტრედია	28 August 1982	2000?	Included interurban line to Kulashi village.
Sokhumi სოხუმი	3 January 1968		Service suspended 1992 - 1995
Tbilisi თბილისი	21 April 1937	4 December 2006	^[5]
Tskhinvali ცხინვალი	25 June 1982	Nov 1990
(Zestaponi ზესტაფონი)			Construction started 1990 - 1991, not completed.
Zugdidi ზუგდიდი	25 February 1986	June–July 2009	Service suspended 1992 - 1995

Note for Kobuleti ქობულეთი: Construction started 1990 - 1991 of interurban line to Makhinjauri (terminus of a line from Batumi ბათუმი), not completed.

India

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Delhi दिल्ली	1935	1962
	Mumbai मुंबई	11 June 1962	24 March 1971

Note: In Kolkata কলকাতা (Calcutta), trial operation with a single trolleybus on a short test line took place in 1977.

Iran

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Tehran تهران	14 September 1992		See Trolleybuses in Tehran.

Japan

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
Shin-Hanayashiki Onsen-tochi (新花屋敷温泉土地)	Hanayashiki (花屋敷)	1 August 1928	April 1932	Hanayashiki is part of Kawanishi, Hyogo ^[6]
Kawasaki-shiei Trolleybus (川崎市営トロリーバス)	Kawasaki	1 March 1951	30 April 1964	^[7]
Kanden Tunnel Trolleybus	Ōgizawa Station – Kurobe Dam	1 August 1964		See note.
Tateyama Tunnel Trolleybus	Daikanbō – Murodō	23 April 1996		See note.
Kyōto-shiei Trolleybus (京都市営トロリーバス)	Kyoto	1 April 1932	30 September 1969	^[6]
Nagoya-shiei Trolleybus (名古屋市営トロリーバス)	Nagoya	10 May 1943	15 January 1951	^[7]
Ōsaka-shiei Trolleybus (大阪市営トロリーバス)	Osaka	1 September 1953	14 June 1970	^[6]
Toei Trolleybus (都営トロリーバス)	Tokyo	20 May 1952	28 September 1968	^[7]
Yokohama-shiei Trolleybus (横浜市営トロリーバス)	Yokohama	16 July 1959	31 March 1972	^[7]

Notes for the two tunnel trolleybus lines:

The 6.1 km Kanden Tunnel Trolleybus line operates almost entirely in tunnel, through a mountain, and connects Ōgizawa Station with Kurobe Dam, for tourists and hikers. Ōgizawa Station is in Ōmachi city, Nagano Prefecture.
The affiliated 3.6 km Tateyama Tunnel Trolleybus line, similarly, operates entirely in tunnel and connects Daikanbo with Murodō. The line is located in Tateyama town, Toyama Prefecture.

Both lines are part of the Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route. This passes through Chūbu-Sangaku National Park (also known in English as "Japan Alps National Park").

Kazakhstan

Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
Aqtöbe	11 August 1982
Almaty	20 April 1944
Astana	18 January 1983	30 September 2008
Atyrau	4 September 1996	29 April 1999
Novaya Bukhtarma	Dec 1974	1980
Petropavl	20 November 1971
Karaganda	30 May 1967	20 April 2010
Qostanay	2 January 1990	2005?	Reported as closed during 2005;^[8] not known whether closure is permanent.
Shymkent	11 January 1969	October 2005	Some operation reported during 2005, none during 2006.^[8]
Taraz	10 April 1980

Kyrgyzstan

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Bishkek	13 January 1951
	Naryn	13 December 1994
	Osh	1 November 1977

Malaysia

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	George Town	1925	1961

Mongolia

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Ulaγan Baγatar / Улаанбаатар /Ulaanbaatar	29 October 1987

Myanmar

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Yangon ရန္‌ကုန္‌မ္ရို့	17 August 1936	by 1945

Nepal

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Kathmandu काठमाडौं	28 December 1975	November 2008^[9]	Service suspended 19 December 2001 - 1 September 2003. See Trolleybuses in Kathmandu.

North Korea

Location	Date (From)	Notes
Anju 안주 (安州)		Opened between 1986 and 1990, perhaps 1989.
Ch'ŏngjin 청진 (淸津)	20 October 1970
Haeju 해주 (海州)	Apr 1986
Hamhŭng 함흥 (咸興)	Apr 1976 (?)
Kanggye 강계 (江界)	17 April 1992
Kapsan 갑산 (甲山)	Oct 1992
Kimch'aek 김책 (金策)	17 May 1985
Kimkol	10 April 1986	Connects Kimkol railway station with coal mine at Markyn, South Pyongan province, exact location unknown.
Kowŏn 고원 (高原)	Jul 1979
Nampho 남포 (南浦)		Opened between 1979 and 1982.
P'yŏngsŏng 평성 (平城)	4 (?) Aug 1983
P'yŏngyang 평양 (平壤)	30 April 1962	See Trolleybuses in Pyongyang.
♦ Sangwŏn 상원 (祥原)	29 (?) March 1995	Connects residential district to cement works. Sangwŏn-gun is part of Pyongyang city.
Ryongdae	10 June 1993	Connects Ryongdae railway station with coal mine, South Pyongan province.
Ryongdung	11 April 1983	Connects Ryongdung railway station with coal mine, North Pyongan province.
Sinŭiju 신의주 (新義州)		Opened between 1977 and 1980, perhaps 1978.
Sunch'ŏn 순천 (順天)		Opened between 1986 and 1990, perhaps 1989.
Tŏkch'ŏn 덕천 (德川)	27 April 1990
Unhŭng 운흥 (雲興)	Aug 1988	Ryanggang province.
Wŏnsan 원산 (元山)	8 September 1988

Note: It is speculated that other trolleybus systems are located at:

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) (opened 1993 ?)

Confirmation is lacking (Tarkhov and Merzlov).

Philippines

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Manila	Feb 1929	Dec 1941

Saudi Arabia

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Riyadh			New system planned.^[10]^[11]

Singapore

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Singapore	14 August 1926	15 December 1962

Sri Lanka

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Colombo	22 July 1953	1 December 1964

Tajikistan

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Dushanbe / Душанбе	2 May 1955		See Trolleybuses in Dushanbe.
	Khujand / Хуҷанд / Khodzhent	3 November 1970		Service suspended 15 May 2008 - 15(?) August 2009. Since ~2006 service extremely unstable due to power outages.

Turkey

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Ankara	1946	1981
İstanbul Elektrik Tramvay ve Tünel İşletmeleri Genel Müdürlüğü	Istanbul	27 May 1961	16 July 1984	Trolleybuses operated only on European side.^[12]
	İzmir	July 1954	Sep 1992	See Trolleybuses in İzmir.

Turkmenistan

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Aşgabat /Ashgabat	19 October 1964		See Trolleybuses in Ashgabat.

Uzbekistan

Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
Andijon /Andijan	30 April 1970	June 2002
Buxoro /Bukhara	1 December 1987	Summer? 2005
♦ Buxoro - Kagan			Reported as complete but not yet open (Trolleybus Magazine).
Jizzax /Jizzakh	26 August 1997	3 January 2010
Farg'ona /Ferghana	23 February 1971	July 2003	Service suspended 1999 - March 2002.
♦ Farg'ona /Ferghana - Margilan	1971	1999?
Namangan	4 April 1973	3 January 2010	In service ~2001? - 2010 only interurban line (see below)
♦ Namangan - Turaqorgon / Turakurgan	~2001?	3 January 2010	Construction started in 1996
Nuqus /Nukus	14 December 1991	July 2007
Olmaliq /Almalyk	20 December 1967	February 2009	Service closed after two consecutive serious accidents at the electro substation
Samarqand /Samarkand	20 December 1957	Summer? 2005
Toshkent /Tashkent	7 November 1947	30 April 2010
♦ Urganch /Urgench - Xiva / Khiva	20 October 1997		See Trolleybuses in Urgench.

Note: A Russian-language source [1] states that systems were under construction in the following locations:
Angren
Chirchiq
Guliston
Qarshi
Kokand
Navoiy
Termiz
Yangiabad

Vietnam

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Hà Nội (河内) /Hanoi	15 December 1986	Jul 1993

Europe

Austria

Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
Gmünd			see České Velenice Czech Republic
Graz	1 October 1941	29 June 1967
Innsbruck	8 April 1944 17 December 1988	29 February 1976 25 February 2007	.^[13]
Judenburg	10 December 1910	1914
Kapfenberg	1 Jul 1944	31 March 2002	System included line extending to Bruck an der Mur.
Klagenfurt	1 August 1944	16 April 1963
Klosterneuburg	22 May 1908	Dec 1919	Connected Klosterneuburg and Weidling railway station.
Leoben	1 March 1949	13 July 1973
Liesing	17 July 1909	1917	Connected Liesing and Kalksburg. Liesing and Kalksburg are now part of Wien.
Linz	15 May 1944
Salzburg	1 October 1940		See Trolleybuses in Salzburg.
Wien /Vienna:
♦ Pötzleinsdorf - Salmannsdorf	14 October 1908	30 October 1938
♦ Währinger Gürtel - Salmannsdorf	9 October 1946	3 December 1958

Goods (freight) line (trolleytruck):

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Sankt Lambrecht	16 November 1945	21 April 1951	Limited passenger service operated [2].

Belarus

Further information: Trolleybuses in Belarus

Location	Date (From)	Notes
Babrujsk / Bobruysk (Babruysk / Bobruysk)	30 August 1978
Брэст / Брест (Brest)	20 April 1981	See Trolleybuses in Brest, Belarus.
Гомель (Homyel / Gomel)	20 May 1962
Гродна / Гродно (Hrodna / Grodno)	5 November 1974
Магілёў / Могилёв (Mahilyow / Mogilev)	19 January 1970
Мiнск / Минск (Minsk)	19 September 1952
Віцебск / Витебск (Vitsyebsk / Vitebsk)	1 September 1978

Note: Plans were announced in 2001 for new systems in:

Баранавiчы / Барановичи (Baranavichy / Baranovichi)

Барысаў / Borisov (Barysaw / Borisov)

Ліда / Лида (Lida)

Маладзечна / Молодечно (Maladzechna / Molodechno)

Наваполацк / Новополоцк (Navapolatsk / Novopolotsk)

Орша (Orsha)

Пінск / Пинск (Punsk)

Полацк / Полоцк (Polatsk / Polotsk)

Салігорск / Солигорск (Salihorsk / Soligorsk)

(Trolleybus Magazine)

Belgium (by province)

Antwerpen (Antwerp)

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Antwerpen (Anvers) /Antwerp	14 August 1929	31 March 1964

Brussels

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Bruxelles / Brussel / Brussels	18 April 1939	15 February 1964

Note: The Brussels-Capital Region is not a province. Neither does it belong to one, nor does it contain any.

Oost-Vlaanderen (East Flanders)

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Gent /Ghent	24 March 1989	14 June 2009	Operation suspended 9 Apr 2004 - 17 Oct 2005.

Liège

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Liège	31 July 1930	9 November 1971
RELSE	♦ Liège - Seraing	15 May 1936	31 August 1964	This system operated a unique group of double-ended trolleybuses with driving positions at both ends.^[14]

Bosnia-Herzegovina

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
GRAS Sarajevo	Sarajevo	23 November 1984		Operation suspended April 1992 - 27 November 1995 because of war.

Bulgaria

Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
(Blagoevgrad / Благоевград)			Construction started during late 1980s, not completed.
Burgas / Бургас	25 September 1989
Dobrich / Добрич	1988
Gabrovo / Габрово	1987
Haskovo / Хасково	1993
Kazanlak / Казанлък	1987	11 January 1999
Pazardzhik / Пазарджик	1 June 1993
Pernik / Перник	Jul 1987
Pleven / Плевен	Jul 1985
Plovdiv / Пловдив	1955
Rousse (Ruse) / Русе	9 September 1988
Sliven / Сливен	24 May 1986
Sofia / София	14 February 1941 1 May 1948	9 September 1944 -	See Trolleybuses in Sofia.
Stara Zagora / Стара Загора	Sep 1988
Varna / Варна	1 January 1986
Veliko Tarnovo / Велико Търново	Sep 1988	Apr 2009
(Vidin / Видин)			Project started in 1980s, but not finished.
Vratsa / Враца	Sep 1988

Croatia

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Rijeka	27 October 1951	16 August 1969
	Split	1944	1972

Czech Republic

Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
Brno	30 July 1949
České Budějovice	1909	1914	First of three systems.
	28 Oct 1948	24 April 1971
	2 May 1991
České Velenice	16 July 1907	14 July 1916
Chomutov - Jirkov	1 September 1995
Děčín	6 January 1950	14 December 1973
Hradec Králové	2 May 1949
Jihlava	19 December 1948
Mariánské Lázně	27 April 1952
Most, and Most - Litvínov	1948	31 January 1959
♦ Litvínov	6 December 1946	31 January 1959
Opava	24 August 1952
Ostrava	9 May 1952
Pardubice	20 January 1952
Plzeň	9 April 1941
Praha /Prague	29 August 1936	15 Oct 1972
Teplice	1 May 1952
Ústí nad Labem	1 July 1988
Zlín - Otrokovice	27 January 1944

Denmark

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
KS	København /Copenhagen	21 May 1938 2 August 1993	15 October 1963 Oct 1998	Also 1902 demonstration.^[15]^[16]
NESA	♦ Hellerup, København	1 February 1927	17 October 1971
	Odense	8 August 1939	19 November 1959	^[17]

Estonia

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
Tallinna Trammi- ja Trollibussikoondis (TTTK)	Tallinn	6 July 1965		^[18]
	Tartu	1936	1936	Demonstration/test line.^[19]

Finland

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Helsinki /Helsingfors	5 February 1949 7 April 1979	14 June 1974 30 October 1985	^[20]^[21]
	Tampere /Tammerfors	8 December 1948	15 May 1976	^[22]

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
ILPAP	Athens	27 Dec 1953
ILPAP	Piraeus	1948^[23]		Service connection with Athens network built 1988. Piraeus system now operated as part of Athens system.

Hungary

Location	Date (From)	Date (To)
Budapest	16 December 1933 21 December 1949	1944 -
Debrecen	2 July 1985
Szeged	1 May 1979

Italy

Main article: List of trolleybus systems in Italy

Latvia

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Rīga	6 November 1947		See Rīgas Satiksme.^[24]

Lithuania

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
Autrolis	Kaunas	31 December 1965		^[23]^[25]
Vilniaus troleibusai	Vilnius	27 November 1956		^[23]^[26] See Trolleybuses in Vilnius.

Moldova

Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
Bălţi /Balti	12 June 1972
Chişinău /Chisinau	12 October 1949
Solonceni	1 May 1992	3 January 1994	2.9-km line connecting residential area of Solonceni village to administrative and employment centers.^[27]
Tighina / Тигина (Russian: Bendery / Бендеры)	1996
Tiraspol	1 November 1967
♦ Tiraspol - Tighina	19 June 1993

The Netherlands

Gelderland

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Arnhem	5 September 1949		See Trolleybuses in Arnhem.
	Nijmegen	9 July 1952	29 March 1969

Groningen

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Groningen	27 June 1927	9 November 1965

Zuid-Holland (South Holland)

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	(Rotterdam)			see note.

Note for Rotterdam: Trolleybus overhead installed in the Maas tunnel in 1941, on instructions from German military authorities. Not used.

Norway

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
Tide	Bergen	24 February 1950		^[28] See Trolleybuses in Bergen.
Drammen Kommunale Trikk	Drammen	15 December 1909	10 June 1967	^[29] See Trolleybuses in Drammen.
AS Oslo Sporveier	Oslo	15 December 1940	15 February 1968	^[30] See Trolleybuses in Oslo.
Stavanger Buss-Selskap	Stavanger	26 October 1947	12 January 1963	^[31] See Trolleybuses in Stavanger.

Poland

Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
Bydgoszcz	1943	January 27, 1945
Dębica	12 November 1988	Oct 1990
Gdańsk	18 September 1943	1945
Gdynia	18 September 1943		Two lines extend to the adjoining town of Sopot. See also Trolleybuses in Gdynia.
Gorzów (Wielkopolski)	23 July 1943	30 January 1945
Jelenia Góra	1944	1945
Legnica	10 November 1943 15 September 1949	Jan 1945 31 December 1956
Lublin	21 July 1953
Olsztyn	1 September 1939 10 December 1946	1945 31 July 1971
Poznań	12 February 1930 1 March 1946	20 January 1945 29 March 1970
Słupsk	22 July 1985	17 September 1999
Tychy	1 October 1982
Wałbrzych	22 October 1944	30 June 1973
Warszawa /Warsaw	5 January 1946 1 June 1983	1 July 1973 31 August 1995	See Trolleybuses in Warsaw.
Wrocław	16 March 1912	1914

Portugal

Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
Amadora			New system in planning (2009).
Braga	28 May 1963	10 September 1979
Coimbra	16 August 1947		See Trolleybuses in Coimbra.
Porto	1 January 1959	27 December 1997

Romania

Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
Baia Mare	16 February 1996
Brăila	23 August 1989	1999
Braşov	1 May 1959
Bucureşti	10 November 1949
Cluj-Napoca	7 November 1959
Constanţa	5 July 1959	3 December 2010
Craiova	9 May 1943	Oct 1944	New trolleybus system is planned (2008).
Galaţi	23 August 1989
Iaşi	1 May 1985	4 March 2006
Mediaş	22 December 1989
Piatra Neamţ	22 December 1995		System includes suburban lines to Dumbrava Rosie and Savinesti.
Ploieşti	1 September 1997
Satu Mare	15 November 1994	2005
Sibiu	4 August 1904	18 October 1904
Sibiu	17 August 1983	14 November 2009^[32]
Slatina	30 May 1996	31 December 2005
Suceava	15 August 1987	2 April 2006
Târgovişte	4 January 1995	2005
Târgu Jiu	20 June 1995		System includes interurban line to Barsesti.
Timişoara	15 November 1942
Vaslui	1 May 1994	7 July 2009

Russia

Main article: List of trolleybus systems in Russia

Serbia

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Beograd / Београд /Belgrade	22 June 1947

Slovakia

Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
Banská Bystrica	24 August 1989		Operation was suspended 1 Jan 2006 - 10 Nov 2007.
Bratislava	19 July 1909 31 July 1941	1914 -
Košice	27 September 1993
Poprad	2 August 1904	1907
Prešov	13 May 1962
Žilina	17 November 1994

Slovenia

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Ljubljana	6 October 1951	4 September 1971
	Piran	24 October 1909	19 July 1912	The first trolleybus system in the Balkans.

Spain

Main article: List of trolleybus systems in Spain

Sweden

Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
Göteborg /Gothenburg	2 October 1940	14 Nov 1964	[3].
Landskrona	27 September 2003		,^[33] [4]. See Trolleybuses in Landskrona.
Linköping	1989	-	Demonstration.
Stockholm	20 January 1941	30 August 1964	[5].
Västerås	11 November 1938	1948	1-km demonstration line [6].

Location	Date (From)	Date (To)
Sydney:
♦ City	22 January 1934	12 April 1948
♦ Kogarah	3 July 1937	29 August 1959

Queensland

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
Brisbane City Council	Brisbane	2 August 1951	13 March 1969

South Australia

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
State Transport Authority	Adelaide	2 March 1932 5 September 1937	11 August 1934 12 July 1963	Experimental. - see Trolleybuses in Adelaide.

Tasmania

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
Hobart City Council; Municipal Tramways Trust	Hobart	29 October 1935	24 November 1968
Launceston City Council; Metropolitan Transport Trust	Launceston	21 December 1951	26 July 1968

Western Australia

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
Western Australian Government Tramways (1 Oct. 1933 to June 1960) Metropolitan (Perth) Passenger Transport Trust (June 1960 to 29 August 1969)	Perth	1 October 1933	29 August 1969	See Trolleybuses in Perth, Western Australia.

New Zealand

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
Farmers Trading Company	Auckland	19 December 1938		Private; absorbed by ATB 1960s
Auckland Transport Board	Auckland	24 September 1949	26 September 1980
Christchurch Tramway Board	Christchurch	5 July 1931	Nov 1956
New Plymouth City Council	New Plymouth	30 October 1950	7 October 1967
Dunedin City Transport & Electricity Department	Dunedin	24 December 1950	31 March 1982	World's southernmost trolleybus system.
Wellington City Council	Wellington	29 September 1924 20 June 1949	May 1932 -	See Trolleybuses in Wellington.

United States (Territories only, in Oceania)

Hawaii (Territory of)

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
Honolulu Rapid Transit Company Limited	Honolulu	1936	-	Demonstration
Honolulu Rapid Transit Company Limited	Honolulu	1 January 1938	22 June 1957

Note: The trolleybus system existed only in the period before Hawaii became a U.S. state. For convenience, it is also included in List of trolleybus systems in the United States.

North America

Canada

Main article: List of trolleybus systems in Canada

Cuba

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	(La Habana /Havana)	(18 September 1949)	?	Test operation, see note.

Note: Tests began 18 Sep 1949 along tramway lines using "All-Service Vehicles" (dual-mode buses) purchased secondhand from Newark, New Jersey, US. This was possible with little effort because Havana's tramway had twin-wire overhead. Regular service was not operated.

Mexico

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Guadalajara	15 December 1976		Limited, free service initially; full service began on 9 Jan. 1977.^[34] See Trolleybuses in Guadalajara.
STE	Ciudad de México /Mexico City	9 March 1951		See note. See also Trolleybuses in Mexico City.

Note: The Mexico City trolleybus system was long thought to have opened in April 1952, but is now known to have opened more than a year earlier, in March 1951.^[35]^[36] Previous to that, there was an experimental line, for testing without passengers, in 1947 or 1948.

United States

Main article: List of trolleybus systems in the United States

South America

Argentina

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	(Bahía Blanca)			Completed 1954, not opened.
	Buenos Aires	4 June 1948	30 April 1966
	Córdoba	7 May 1989		See Trolleybuses in Córdoba.
	La Plata	Dec 1954	25 December 1966
	Mar del Plata	1956	1963 (?)
EPTM, El Trole	Mendoza	16 October 1913 14 February 1958	1915 (?) -	See Trolleybuses in Mendoza.
	Rosario	24 May 1959		Operation suspended 1 Jan. 1993 - 25 Jan. 1994, during transition to a new operator and fleet. See also Trolleybuses in Rosario.
	Tucumán	23 July 1955	28 April 1962

Brazil

Main article: List of trolleybus systems in Brazil

Chile (by Región )

V Valparaíso

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Valparaíso	31 December 1952		Operation suspended 1 Dec. 1981 - circa May 1982, reopening after sold to a new, private operator.^[37]^[38] See also Trolleybuses in Valparaíso.

RM Región Metropolitana de Santiago

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Santiago	31 October 1947 24 December 1991	ca. November 1978 9 July 1994^[39]	Also experimental operation in 1940^[23] with a single vehicle.^[40]

Colombia

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Bogotá	12 April 1948	15 August 1991

Ecuador

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Quito	18 December 1995		See Trolleybuses in Quito

Peru

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Lima	Jul 1928	13 June 1931

Trinidad and Tobago

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Port of Spain	1 October 1941	31 December 1956

Uruguay

Name of Companies	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
AMDET (1951–1976) COOPTROL (1975–1992)	Montevideo	28 March 1951	26 January 1992

Venezuela

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
es:Transbarca	Barquisimeto			New system under construction.
Tranvías Eléctricos de Caracas	Caracas	July 1937	1949 (?)
Tromerca	Mérida	18 June 2007		Introductory service, Sundays only, started 26 Nov 2006. System opened (regular, all-day service) on 18 June 2007.^[41] See also Trolleybuses in Mérida.
	Valencia	?	1949 (?)

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Gregoris, Paolo; Rizzoli, Francesco; and Serra, Claudio. 2003. "Giro d'Italia in filobus" (ISBN 88-7785-193-7). Cortona: Editore Calosci.
Jones, David. Australian Trolleybuses. Wellington: City Tramway Publications.
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.
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Pabst, Martin. 1989. "Tram & Trolley in Africa" (ISBN 3-88490-152-4). Krefeld: Röhr Verlag GMBH.
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). Los Angeles: Interurbans.
Stock, Werner. 1987. "Obus-Anlagen in Deutschland" (ISBN 3-926882-00-X). Bielefeld: Hermann Busch Verlag.
"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 Günther, Sergei Tarkhov and Christian Blank; ISBN 3-926524-23-5). 2004. Berlin: Arbeitsgemeinschaft Blickpunkt Straßenbahn.
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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).

External links

All Time List of North American Trolleybus Systems (David Wyatt)
Bibliography of the Electric Trolleybus (Richard DeArmond)
Электротранспорт в городах бывшего СССР (Elektrotransport v gorodakh byvshego SSSR, Dmitry Zinoviev)
World tram and trolleybus systems (рус., en.)
Latin American Trolleybus Installations (Allen Morrison)
The Tramways of Cuba (Allen Morrison)
TrolleyMotion
Progetto Città Elettriche (Italy)
Tram.nu Atlas (Bruse LF Persson)
UK Trolleybus Systems & Museums (Bruce Lake)
Wires of Faded Glory (Richard A. Bílek)
World Trolleybus List - Systems Closed
Tom's North American Trolleybus Pix
TRANSIRA Association (Romanian Trolleybuses)
Trolleybus in Europe (public-transport.net)