Status Closed | Routes 17 | |
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Open 28 March 1938 (1938-03-28) Close 12 May 1968 (1968-05-12) Operator(s) Belfast Corporation Tramways | ||
The Belfast trolleybus system once served the city of Belfast, Northern Ireland. It was the only trolleybus system ever to be built in Ireland. Opened on 28 March 1938 (1938-03-28), it gradually replaced the Belfast tramway network.
The Belfast system was the second largest of all the now-defunct trolleybus systems in the United Kingdom, after the London system. It had a total of 17 routes, and a maximum fleet of 246 trolleybuses. It was closed on 12 May 1968 (1968-05-12).
Five of the former Belfast trolleybuses are now preserved. Two of them are based at the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, Cultra, Holywood, County Down, one at the East Anglia Transport Museum at Carlton Colville, Suffolk, and one at Warnham, Sussex. The fifth one is at the National Transport Museum of Ireland, in Dublin, Republic of Ireland.