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Busscar trolleybus in São Paulo, Brazil Solaris trolleybus in Landskrona, Sweden Video of a trolleybus in Ghent, Belgium. A trolleybus (also known as trolley bus, trolley coach, trackless trolley, trackless tram – in the 1910s and 1920s [1] – or trolley [2] [3]) is an electric bus that draws power from dual overhead wires (generally suspended from roadside posts) using spring-loaded ...
Dual-mode (diesel-trolley) buses used electric traction in the South Boston Waterfront tunnel and a short surface section, and diesel propulsion elsewhere. [16] Replaced by CNG buses with extended battery mode for the tunnel. Fairhaven: 16 October 1915 1 December 1915 Experimental. Fitchburg: 10 May 1932 30 June 1946 System also served Leominster.
Trolleybuses have been replaced with autonomous electric buses from April 2019. Tateyama Tunnel Trolleybus: Daikanbō – Murodō: 23 April 1996 30 November 2024 (scheduled) [36] Trolleybuses to be replaced with electric buses from April 2025. [37] Kyōto-shiei Trolleybus (京都市営トロリーバス) Kyoto: 1 April 1932 30 September 1969 [34]
Trolleybus garage (depot) in San Francisco, USA, with a range of Muni's trolleybuses dating from 1976 to 2003. On the left is an ETI (Skoda/AAI) 14TrSF trolleybus, which type replaced the non-accessible Flyer trolleybuses in the center.
[1] [24] Philadelphia purchased more trolley buses from Brill than from any other manufacturer, a total of 133. [5] However, vehicles were also purchased from other builders, most notably Marmon-Herrington (71 units) and AM General (110). [25] Already 31 years old at the time, ACF-Brill TC44 trolley bus 215 turning at the east end of route 79 ...
The service was provided by CCF–Brill trolley buses, with 82 model T44 vehicles acquired in 1947 and 1948, and 245 of the larger model T48 (and variants T48A and T48SP) acquired between 1949 and 1954. [9] With the delivery of the last new Brill trolley bus, in January 1954, Vancouver had the largest trolley bus fleet in Canada at 327 units. [3]
A trolleybus of the Oakwood Street Railway, one of multiple companies that once operated trolleybuses in Dayton, passing the Montgomery County Courthouse in 1937. The first electric trolley bus (ETB) service in Ohio began operation in Dayton, on April 23, 1933, when the Salem Avenue-Lorain Avenue line was converted from streetcars to trolley coaches — or trolley buses, as they are most ...
The San Francisco trolleybus system forms part of the public transportation network serving San Francisco, in the state of California, United States.Opened on October 6, 1935, [2] it presently comprises 15 lines and is operated by the San Francisco Municipal Railway, commonly known as Muni (or the Muni), with around 300 trolleybuses.