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.
Note: In Kolkata কলকাতা (Calcutta), trial operation with a single trolleybus on a short test line took place in 1977.
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").
Note: A Russian-language source [1] states that system was under construction in the city of Turkistan
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)
Songrim 송림 (松林) (opened 1993 ?)
Confirmation is lacking (Tarkhov and Merzlov).
Note: A Russian-language source http://archive.is/FrdG. Archived from the original on 16 Dec 2012. states that systems were under construction in the following locations:
Angren
Chirchiq
Guliston
Qarshi
Kokand
Navoiy
Termiz
Yangiabad
Goods (freight) line (trolleytruck):
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)
Note: The Brussels-Capital Region is not a province. Neither does it belong to one, nor does it contain any.
Zuid-Holland (South Holland)
Note for Rotterdam: Trolleybus overhead installed in the Maas tunnel in 1941, on instructions from German military authorities. Not used.
See Asia section of list, above. Although trolleybuses served the European part of Istanbul, the country's two other trolleybus systems were located in the Asian part of Turkey.
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.
Note: Tests began 18 September 1949 along tramway lines using "all-service vehicles" (dual-mode buses) purchased secondhand from Newark, New Jersey, US. The tests did not involve building new or converting existing supply because Havana's tramway had twin-wire overhead. Regular service was not operated.
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. Previous to that, there was an experimental line, for testing without passengers, in 1947 or 1948.
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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.
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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.
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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.
"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).
