These Trolleybus Systems are Unique to their Country (Top 10)
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
- These are 10 cool cities that have trolleybuses that can be only found in their respective countries! So sad to see this mode of transit slowly fade away. Any trolleybus systems that you have encountered that are slowly fading away?
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Information comes from Wikipedia and a few other google search sources as I don't know all the details. Please comment if any corrections are needed! Its a learning process for all of us and I enjoy being educated on what in the end we all love: transportation
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Comment below so we can all have a productive 'conversation about transportation!'
Thank you for all the support!!!
I love trolleybuses. They're so quiet and comfortable to ride. How lucky I am to live a few meters from São Paulo main trolleybuses lines.
i have to say that as a swiss person i think the swiss trolleybus system is incredible, in nearly all the town that you go in there is a lot of trolleybuses line everywhere and it's not stopping
The Trolleybus is the 2nd best vehicle on the streets after Trams .
In my opinion they are better because they aren't confined to a track... More flexible
I couldn't agree more, trams are the best vehicles on the streets and trolleybuses are the 2nd best after them.
I always thought about trolley buses as a bad compromise between trams and normal buses. Trams are the best way for towns!
@@hassanalihusseini1717 not really they are confined to a track if anything blocks it their stuck. Our trolleys can go off wire for 25miles in Dayton OH so much more flexible than Trams.
@@chevrolet1319 That is true, but the disadvantage is still that they have rupper wheels (abrasion), and they - as heavy lorries do - destroy a road much much more than normal cars.
Zurich's trolleybuses are incredible
Bergen had two lines from 1950 till 1995. The one remaining line has now been extended. The technology is such that a battery is charged from the overhead lines. Therefore it runs partly on battery through parts of the city center before reconnecting with the lines.
I was able to ride trolleybus L5 before they made it diesel only in the 70th.
I like the trolleybuses from Brașov, Romania the most. They run Solaris ones, and while 4 or 5 lines run completely on overhead wires all route, there are also more lines that run on their own batteries for sections where overhead wires aren't available.
My favourite trolleybus system is that of Budapest. There are 14 lines serving the downtown core of the city and a wide range of vehicles in the fleet. Not to mention the beautiful red liveries they wear.
Two other systems I really like is those of Vancouver and Zurich. Vancouver is, unfortunately, the last city in Canada to have a trolleybus system after Toronto and Edmonton dismantled them and I love Zurich's bi-articulated Hess LighTram trolleybusses.
In my opinion, trolleybuses is the best transportation mode. Fact: Riga is actually trying to get more trolleybus routes, just to save the enviroment. Like 40. bus route switched to the 4. trolleybus route. They even have H2O trolleybuses (1st in the world according to them). Also i live in Riga.
Great (and green) mode of transportation, I remember Glasgow's sort-lived trolleybuses (1949-1967), so silent and graceful.
I love trolleybuses in my City of Belgrade, Serbia. Since child, they were my connection to the world. Old soviet ZIU (Trolza). Now they are Belkamunmash, but there are plans to buy new ones. There are 8 lines. Still love them more than trams, and certainly more than buses.
Imagine if Toronto Canada have kept its trolleybus system up today, also Hamilton and Edmonton Alberta. It would of been like Vancouver with electric power vehicles.
What powers streetcars, trams and subways?
@@billyehh electricity
Boston will likely phase out the remaining trolley bus lines in the next few years.
I'm sad of this news .
Considering how much money they spent on the Silver Line I seriously doubt they end trolley bus service.
@@erichhouchens3711 New battery busses. they claim they are more "efficient".
@@TomMcBoston Great idea until one has a battery failure and dies in the tunnel. Even worse would be one doing a "Tesla" and self combusting in the tunnel at South Station.
@@erichhouchens3711 not my idea, the MBTA's plan.
The classic Pullman trolleybus in Valpariso was a wonderful surprise - I have not seen them before. How cool is the little antenna on the front? Thanks for another great top ten!
Budapest Has the largest Electric Traction public Transport system in Western Europe. It also has an extensive Trolleybus network, including duo Trolley boom operation and battery operation in the same vehicles.15 routes are served over a large area of the city. One of the best systems worldwide.
When I was an apprentice telecomms engineer in S Wales we still had trolley buses in Cardiff. The DC power supplies used to play havoc with the lead sheathing of the old telephone cables. If you were lucky “sacrificial anodes” were fitted to lessen the damage.
They finally ceased running in January 1970.I grew up in Ely,trolleybuses ran past the house.
В Москве тоже была одна из лучших троллейбусных систем. Множество маршрутов, большая длина линий, богатая история...
Была, пока нынешний мэр не закрыл её в прошлом году, заменив на автобусы, и, частично, электробусы.
И пока весь идёт вперёд, и борется, за экологию, мы возвращаемся в каменный век. 🙁🙁🙁
Valparaiso re-opened a second line a month ago, so now there are two again.
10:49 - In Arnhem there's actually more then just Hess trolleys. Arnhem also still has a handfull (very old) Berkhof Premier AT18 trolleybuses riding around, that were supposed to retire with the newer of the two sets of HESS trolleys coming in, but a route extension around the same time made them needed for service. - They've been set to go out of service at the end of each year for years but so far have clung on every time. - Despite the lower level of service due to the pandemic they've still been regularly spotted through the pandemic.
Thanks for the updated info!
Update: A few months after my comment, in early October 2021, the last three Berkhof Premier AT18s finally were retired.
I would add the Tateyama Tunnel Trolleybus, the only trolleybus line in Japan.
It’s a shame it doesn’t exist anymore
@@gachimuchienjoyer According to the newest time table from 2021, it still runs every 10 minutes from Murodo, starting at 8:15 am until 4:00 pm.
@@SiqueScarface they use battery buses instead of trolleybuses since 2019 IIRC
@@gachimuchienjoyer Didn't you confuse this with the Kanden Tunnel Trolleybus, which indeed runs on battery busses since 2018? On the website of the Tateyama Alpine route, they still picture it as trolleybusses.
@@SiqueScarface oops, I definitely did
*I think Vancouver system is by far the most beautiful.*
Vancouver’s might look good but Dayton’s is the best structurally. Their trolleys hit speeds of 50 mph on a daily basis. Speeds you’ll never see in Vancouver
@@chevrolet1319 of course,cuz we use kph instead of mph
@@zhourongyin7026 that would be the equivalent of 80 Kmh
I see Trolleybusses Nearly every Day. I work in Esslingen so I see the Trolleybusses on Line 101 passing my Workplace everyday. I used to grow up with the now long gone Duobusses , Type Mercedes O405 GTD, i miss this Vehicles and their unique Sound.
Bro they are bought by singapore
Come here if u miss them
@@brendannotfound the only O405 GTD i know which is able to use it's Electro-mode is Former Esslingen No. 324. In bulgaria. All Others of the only 49 ever build are either scrapped or only able to use their Diesel Mode.
Landskrona in Sweden, 1 small route, uniqe with no switches, battery to/from depot. Only trolleybus in Sweden.
Arnhem, the Netherlands. My country loves trams, and Arnhem thought 'we want trams without tracks' lol.
Is there enough passengers to fill up articulated buses? Other channels try to persuade me that the Dutch are all for bicycles and wouldn't even consider anything else 😎
@@jmi5969 You'd be surprised ;) Line 7 which you saw in the clip for instance, goes to Geitenkamp where there used to be an army base.
@@jmi5969 Arnhem is crowded, but yes, we also use bicycles all the time
San Francisco, California, has a fairly unique trolleybus system in that several segments (Market Street at least, not sure about elsewhere) are shared with streetcars. Kind of unique to look at since the trolleybuses require two overhead wires while the streetcars only require one. Also sometimes the streetcar system is supplemented with buses, but the buses must be diesel because some portions of the streetcar routes only have one overhead wire.
They also use batteries for sections. Better than Boston I think.
@@utahrailfan1946 SF doesn't use battery unless there's a detour. They're all electric.
And for the OP, you're talking about Market St in SF. The Trackless-Trolleys share the street with the F-Market trolley line.
Thanks Tim. I have ridden the trolleybuses in Athens as well as the Metro.
In the US, add San Francisco, Seattle, Dayton, and Philadelphia. Up until a few months ago, I would have also said add Boston (actually Cambridge/Watertown/Belmont for the true electric trolleybuses, and then still add Silver Line Waterfront in Boston + Chelsea, but not for much longer, because these are also being replaced by hybrid buses).
Respect + I like the trolleybus system of Cluj Napoca (here is the Untold :) ), Romania. There are modern trolleybus and a lot of lines
I grew up in Limoges, France where there is trolley buses and whenever I travel around and I see the sky above the roads of other cities with parallel copper wires, I feel a bit home wherever I might be across the world.
If that’s Bergen I see in the thumbnail I will be very happy
Of course it's bergen, you can see the bus color, and how it looks.
in norway we have insanely new trolleybuses (Solaris Trollino 18 IV)
I really enjoyed this video of trolleybusses! One of the reasons is that they have trolley poles rather than pantographs. I understand that pantographs have advantages over poles, but I've always associated them with heavy electric lines like the South Shore in NW Indiana (where I grew up) rather than streetcars/trams. I just love watching the sliders snake their way along the wire and though wire frogs at junctions. Cheers from Wisconsin.
The busses use trolley poles to complete the circuit. One has the power, the other is the ground wire. On trains and trolleys, the rails act as the ground wire.
@@utahrailfan1946 I understand the need for two connections and hence why they can't use pantographs. I just wish streetcars had stuck with trolley poles, as well. But then I don't have to maintain them!
@@andrewpalm2103 poles come off the wire more at speed and you need more than one for stub lines meaning the driver has to put one up and take one down at each end thus killing time.
@@blue9multimediagroup Yes, pantographs are superior to trolley poles. No argument from me. My comments are motivated strickly from nostalgia!
Fun fact: there were also trolleyboats back then. Low Tech Magazine has a great article about it.
São Paulo, Brasil. 132km of trolleybus infrastructure in 9 lines with red and grey buses
The vandals closed the Wellington (New Zealand) trolleybus system in October 2017. They made up a story about the cost of maintaining the overhead system. Sad because there were about 30 three axle vehicles, and only about ten years old.
Footnote:
There were trolleybus systems in five NZ towns and cities at one time: Auckland, New Plymouth, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin.
Nice to see an electric car (Nissan Leaf) next to an electric bus at the end of the Tallinn section .
Marianske Lazne (Marienbad) the famous Czech Spa Town has the smallest trolleybus network in the world. Running old and new Skoda vehicles they are able to deviate from the electrified routes by having a small supplementary motor, giving them the ability to serve new housing and shopping developments.
There are several smaller systems than Marianske Lazne's. For example, Landskrona (Sweden) is only 3 km long with five trolleybuses.
Bergen har just extended the route . And where there are no lines they will go on battery.
And all our city buses are battery electric
I have not been to Valparaiso, but if I ever go, I will be sure to see the trolleybuses! After all, they still use late-1940s trolleybuses built by Pullman-Standard, which also built the famous sleeping cars!
You possibly could have included Sukhumi Abkhazia/Georgia, but you may not have had footage!
At 7:47, we see a trolleybus in Athens, Greece, with a Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream ad on the side. It shows two pints of ice cream with the words, in English, "All You Need Is A Spoon." I always laugh when I see ads in English on foreign transit systems. Lisbon, Kiev, Rome, all have English ads on their transit!
You should See the new Buses in Esslingen am Necker, Germany
In São Paulo mostly of 200 Km Trolleybus network was dismantled in 2004. It's very sad 😭
My old home city, Cardiff in Wales, had an extensive network of 14 routes, that replaced the old tram system, but regrettably the system closed in 1970 with diesel buses taking over. How things have changed, with diesel now getting pushed out of cities!
The trolleybuses were mostly double deck, 6 wheeled (with many coach built in Cardiff}, apart from some single deck 6 wheeled trolleybuses used on a route with a low bridge.
Unlike many systems of that era, Cardiff trolleybuses could change route by means of an automatic frog on the overhead points, that was developed by the Chief Engineer/Deputy Transport Manager.
Every trolleybus system had electric route-changing frogs on their wires: I don’t know of any system that didn’t use them. The alternative, hand-operated, frogs were dangerous to operate in heavy motor-traffic streets.
@@petermolloy6142 I used to travel on London Trolleybuses and at each junction, the conductor would get out to operate the frog if needed.
The automatic frogs used on the Cardiff system were, I believe, patented by Felix Cunuder who had come from Hastings so that system probably had his devices fitted, including the lightweight trolley heads also developed by him.
Other systems may have had different auto frogs, or used the Cunuder system, which was simple and reliable.
0:53 pretty unusual. At this time it was usual to abandon trolleybus and replace it with wonderful smelling diesel busses.
I remember I was in a San Francisco downtown hotel, quite high up. I was bored and looked down at the traffic in the street below me. Some turkey had parked his car in an obvious no parking street and a trolley bus was stuck behind him, honking his horn. The owner didn't appear, so the trolleybus driver decided to drive around the parked car. The two electricity booms, or whatever they are called, came off the wires and the trolleybus was now blocking traffic coming in the opposite lane. The busdriver came out and tried to get the booms back onto the wires but the bus was too far away. All the passengers got off the bus and seemed to walk off. I remember thinking "urban drama."
You missed Milan! The 90/91 circle line (90 is clockwise and 91 counterclockwise) runs almost entirely on a separate right of way and is a fundamental part of the city’s public transport system, connecting many metro and suburban rail stations.
Привет из Новокуйбышевска, Россия! 🖐️🇷🇺
Несмотря на то, что население у нас всего 100000, тут действуют 8 троллейбусных маршрутов. 😊😊😊
You forgot to include Longest and most sophisticated trolley buse in the world (Linz, Austria)
Didn't know Van Hool also made trolley-buses! (and, being Dutch myself, nice to see Arnhem in this compilation as well)
Yerevan and Valparaiso look like those vehicles that our previous gen writers thought when they imagined of future.
Moscow closed sadly last year.
I have this very thing popping up in another Top 10 video that I will upload in the future. :(
Nice footage. There is also Landskona in Sweden as the only system in its country. It has one line with five trolleys.
Have a Look to Linz in Austria - there runs new design double articulated trolleybusses
Everswalde Germany is much older, they started in 1940.
Berlin started in 1935. After the German division, they built a trolleybus system in East Berlin, while West Berlin started to abandon trolley busses.
1965 the trolleybus was gone in West Berlin and it died in 1972 in East Berlin.
Tallin are sadly on their way to kicking out the trolleybuses.
Vilnius is on this route too. Politicians literaly do everythink for buses and wery little for trolleybuses. About half a year ago they stoped 5 lines, because of the pandemic. 2 of them are back, but only work on work days, rush hours. Other 3 lines are still stoped. And there is like crap ton of complains from people about all of this. But zero thinks are done about that. Just "timetable adjustments" by like 1-2 mins in whole day. Trolleybuses also have slow time tables, even on the routes that have straight roads and low traffic. Even new solaris trolleybuses are as good as old skodas because they run at same speed thro outdated vires and dont even have any backup batteries to get around accident or somethink like that. (Which happend a lot, saw it my self many times)
One of the lines that runs only on rush hours connects big neighborhood with multiple hospitals and schools.
And even when pandemic was at its worst people still had to cram inside public transport, because it ran like every 20-30 mins on RUSH HOUR.
In short: our public transport (not just trolleybuses) are run by idiots.
Didn’t Tallinn change their plans recently?
You have forgotten a few more trolleybus systems are the only one to their country: Ecuador - Quito, in Kazakhstan Almaty has already become the only system, Mongolia - Ulanbaatar, Serbia - Beograd, Portugal -Coimbra and two mountain tunnel trolleybus lines in Japan.
The trolley bus system of Beijing is quite extensive and useful. I enjoyed using them when I lived there.
used to ride the 654 trolly bus to school in the 1950s they were all discontinued when Diesel got so cheap in the 1970s? just a few museum lines still run
Coimbra in Portugal. Is the only remaining trolley sistem in Portugal. It has 2 lines.
take a look at Linz / Austria ... VanHool double articulated buses only run on 4 trolleybus routes, but another city in Austria also has an impressive trolleybus system, namely Salzburg 12 lines 125km route length 100 trolleybuses are some impressive figures for this network.
Belgrade Serbia is another city with a trolleybus network unique to it's country. It used to consist of 7 lines, but line 19 is no longer running as of the second half of 2019, also lines 21 and 22 have been shortend to Slavija square, it's sad but on the bright side extentions have been planed, aldo as of today there is no information available about them. There are also plans to extend the tram network, but just like the trolleybuses, there is currently no information available about those extentions.
Valparaiso, Chile. Because Mendoza, Argentina closed its trolleycoach network.
Wellington, New Zealand closed its trolleycoach system.
Cities that lost their trackless trolley systems range from Johannesburg to Kabul to Grozny, Chechnya.
Every major bus only transit system in the United States should earmark its 5 to 10 busiest bus routes to convert to trackless trolley.
Tallinn no longer uses those old Škoda trolleybuses.
U can check brasov, romania. Transportation is full electric. They have trolleybusses and electric busses. All brand new
Los trolebuses de Valparaiso son originales al resto de los del vídeo. Un motor eléctrico dura muchísimo. 👌👏👏👏👏
Otras ciudades con trolebuses son Ciudad de México, Budapest, Coimbra, Gante, Zurich, San Francisco, etc.
very efficient
I was espect to see Chisinau / Kishinev ( Rep Moldova ) , may be in the next video .
Maybe Chisinau is not the ONLY trolleybus system in Moldova?
I operate at trackless trolley in Philadelphia the AM generals
They've been gone since 2003
Definitely one of the most stupid decisions British governments made (and that's saying a lot) to abandon trolleybuses. Quiet, smooth, emission free, and a fraction of the cost of a tram
They didn't want to pay for infrastructure
Superb video, except that I am surprised that you missed Landskrona in Sweden. At 3 kms,. it s probably the smallest trolleybus system in the world. When it opened in 2003 it had 3 buses - but there are now 5. I have travelled on the route several times, and it is well used. It links the town centre with a modern main line station built on the edge of the town (population 33,000).
On a different point, notwithstanding the closures in Moscow and Wellington, I do not share your pessimism about the future of trolleybuses. A lot of European cities are now introducing in-motion charging battery trolleybuses which can run several kilometres off the wires.. (Eg Zurich, Berne, Salzburg, Brno, Bratislava.)
I definitely like the look of trolleybuses in Seattle, San Francisco, and Dayton, Ohio. The newer trolleys in Dayton are unique in the sense that the front and rear doors are narrower than typical doors. (I’ve seen videos that prove this observation.)
Unfortunately, most Canadian cities have since dismantled their trolley systems. The Flyer and GM Brown Boveri trolleys were by far my favourites. It was sad to see them disappear.
Will trolleys make a comeback outside Vancouver? That is to be seen.
Dayton has buses that double as Trackless-Trolleys. They're GILLIG BRT bodies.
@@blue9multimediagroup they are actually Trolleybuses with a good battery. Not the other way around, because they spend 95% of the time with poles up and only 2 out of 7 Trolleybus routes in Dayton require you to have your poles down for a section.
@@blue9multimediagroup other than that they’re strictly trolleys
Thanks for Riga in this video, its my Motherland, but the location for filming is not very good, it is better near the library, where you can show how the trolleybus puts the rods on the wires. I am interested in places where trolleybus crosses electrical rail roads and inter-cities lines like in Crimea. I love trolleybuses and wish they could survive and develope enough. Trolleybuses better than buses, electric buses and hydrogen buses.
We have trolleybuses in Quito. 😊
Excuse me, there are three intercity trolleybus routes in Crimea Alushta-Yalta-Simferopol
Faltou mostrar o Brasil, cidades como São Paulo, Santos, e região do grande ABC que operam o sistema
Mas só que o Brasil tem mais de um sístema de tróleis, e o tema do vídeo são sistemas de tróleis únicos para o país.
There were 10 trolleybus systems in the 90s in Uzbekistan....
I drove in Geneva the trolleybus orange and white that we see in Sarajevo the NAW from tpg
Riga also has hydrogen trollybuses (called Hindenburg by some due to their long hump)
It would be better if they continued to pull the wires, some bus routes need to be replaced with trolleybus routes.
Tychy, Poland has an extensive Trolleybus service
I love your videos, but sorry, the comments on this video are far too pessimistic. Most of the systems shown have a good future. Sarajevo: new fleet ordered. Bergen: new fleet and trolleybus route extension, maybe more in future. Vancouver is committed to another new fleet from about 2028. Riga has a very modern fleet and new vehicles are still arriving. Tallin has shrunk a lot but strangely the general manager is now talking positively about trolleybuses. Athens should be ok, though they are being tempted by battery buses. Arnhem is part of a EU research project which will see battery-trolleybuses taking over longer interurban routes from the city. Valparaiso is a museum system but a second, disused, route has recently been revived. Overall, the picture is not so gloomy as you fear!
Il be honest the Tallinn trolleybus footage that you showed is from year 2013-2014 the transportation there has went up a lot since its 2023 i would recomend you do a little bit more reserach on it and you will see that im right
At least in Chile, they preserved older buses until bad condition.
I wish they reintroduce trolley busses to Stockholm Sweden they got closed in the 60's and replaced by carbon polluting disel busses. I also whish they would expand the trams as well.
When a boy, in the 50" in Nice (France) there were trolleybuses everywhere....but the "progressive" of the 70" declared this was obsolete !!!!
The longest trolleybus line (86 km) is in Crimea: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean_Trolleybus
Landskrona, Sweden.
most of these trolleybus systems are not really unique, they are just versions of the later soviet/east-German model....
I would say Pekin, Athens & Italy (Sanremo & Bologna) are the more unique, maybe also some of the Swiss ones (just because they are so long)... the Ukrainian ones (especially in smaller towns) can also present a historical interest, as they run age old models of locally made soviet types... North Korean systems can be called somewhat Unique for thesame reason...
sadly, systems like in Delhi or Kathmandu no longer run, with their unique looking Tata designs.
Budapest
Keep your trolleybus networks going. At least they don't keep catching fire like London's stupid battery ones do.
Cheaper version of light rail/tram?
More flexible mode for when you can't tear up the street for trolleys
@@blue9multimediagroup true
please do solingen its a city in germany near cologne
Хороше видео, спасибо!
There is unique system in Turkie, Malatia - the only one in this country.
You missed Dayton considering how small the city is to have a trolley bus system. Philadelphia (SEPTA) is in danger of loosing it's trolley bus network.
A city you also missed is Zurich which has unique three segment trolley busses.
Dayton is such a cool place for trolleybuses but its not unique to the USA ;) Still loved filming the new generations there!
SEPTA is not in any danger of losing its 3 lines. They're perfectly fine and have been since 1947.
I wish politics hadn't got in the way and axed the double decker trolleybuses in Bradford and Walsall UK. I like the Hesse Double Articulated trolleybuses in Luzern/Lucerne and Zurich. There is also the world's longest trolleybus system in Crimea. Not so easy to get to since Russian annexation it 86km (53 miles long) en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean_Trolleybus
Sarajevo use Man 102 SLs and Graf and Stift units? After all these years, phew!
Any other cities in Canada with trolley buses (existing).
Nope.
Only Vancouver.
Edmonton and Toronto ceased years ago.
Why don't we have them in the UK?
San Francisco, Wellington New Zealand
It seems the trolleybuses in Wellington are no more :( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybuses_in_Wellington
@@57bananaman yeah i know,. but it was a great and relatively modern system
San Francisco is a great system but not unique to the USA! Philadelphia, Boston, Seattle and Dayton, Ohio!!!
I didn't know Canada was in Europe hahaha 😅😆