List of trolleybus systems in Switzerland

This is a list of trolleybus systems in Switzerland. It includes all trolleybus systems, past and present.

Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes	Voltage	Frequency
Altstätten	8 September 1940	21 May 1977	Connected Altstätten and Berneck. Known as the "Rheintal" (Rhine Valley) system, after the operator's name, Rheintalische Verkehrsbetriebe. ^[1]	1000V
Basel	31 July 1941	30 June 2008	See note. ^[2]
Berne / Bern	29 October 1940		^[3]
Biel/Bienne	19 October 1940
Cernier, Val-de-Ruz	1 September 1948	14 April 1984	Connected Les Hauts-Geneveys, Cernier, Dombresson and Villiers.
Fribourg	1 February 1949
♦ Fribourg - Farvagny	4 January 1912	21 May 1932
Geneva / Genève	11 September 1942		^[4]	600
La Chaux-de-Fonds	23 December 1949
Lausanne	2 October 1932			600
Lucerne / Luzern	7 December 1941
Lugano	25 April 1954	30 June 2001 ^[5]		1000V, same as the old tramway network.	4 lines with a trolleybus every 12 minutes each.
Montreux	18 April 1957		Connects Vevey, Montreux and Villeneuve. Earlier line operated in Villeneuve, 17 December 1900 - 1903.
Mühleberg - Gümmenen	1918	1922	Non-passenger service (trolleytruck)
Neuchâtel	16 February 1940		System included an interurban line to Cernier (Val-de-Ruz) until 1969.
St. Gallen	18 July 1950
Schaffhausen	24 September 1966
Thun	19 August 1952	13 March 1982	Connected Thun and Beatenbucht
Val-de-Ruz - see Cernier
Winterthur	28 December 1938
Zurich / Zürich	27 May 1939

Sources

Murray, Alan. 2000. "World Trolleybus Encyclopaedia" (ISBN 0-904235-18-1). Reading, Berkshire, UK: Trolleybooks.
Dölling, Gerhard (Ed.). 1993. "Strassenbahnatlas Schweiz 1993" (ISBN 3-926524-13-8). Berlin: Arbeitsgemeinschaft Blickpunkt Strassenbahn e.V.
Peschkes, Robert. 1993. "World Gazetteer of Tram, Trolleybus and Rapid Transit Systems, Part Three: Europe" (ISBN 0-948619-01-5). London: Rapid Transit Publications.
Trolleybus Magazine (ISSN 0266-7452). National Trolleybus Association (UK). Bimonthly.
Blickpunkt Strassenbahn. Arbeitsgemeinschaft Blickpunkt Strassenbahn e.V. (Germany). Bimonthly.

^ Murray, Alan. "Farewell to a Rural Trolleybus". Trolleybus Magazine No. 94, May-June 1977. p. 65. National Trolleybus Association (UK).
^ At a referendum held on 17 June 2007, the cantonal electorate rejected a proposal by trolleybus supporters for retention of the trolleybus system. The electorate accepted a counter-proposal by thecantonal authority to purchase motorbuses to replace the trolleybus fleet. Consequently, the only then-remaining trolleybus line closed in June 2008.Referendum results
^ Priestley, John. "Comings and Goings in Bern". Trolleybus Magazine No. 231, May-June 2000, p. 57. National Trolleybus Association (UK).
^ Box, Roland. "A Short History of the Genève System." Trolleybus Magazine No. 278, March-April 2008, p. 26. National Trolleybus Association (UK).
^ Trolleybus Magazine No. 239 (September-October 2001), p. 119.

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