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:
Americas
Brazil
Canada
United States
Europe (Note: countries not listed here are included in this article; see Contents table below)
France
Germany
Italy
Russia
Spain
Switzerland
Ukraine
United Kingdom
This page also provides references that are applicable to all parts of the complete list.
Bold typeface for a location city indicates an existing trolleybus system, currently in operation (temporary suspensions not counted), or a new system currently under construction.
Africa
Algeria
Egypt
Morocco
South Africa
Tunisia
Americas
Argentina
Brazil
Canada
Chile
Colombia
Cuba
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.
Ecuador
Mexico
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.
Peru
Trinidad and Tobago
United States
Uruguay
Venezuela
Asia
Afghanistan
Armenia
Azerbaijan
China
Georgia
India
Note: In Kolkata (Calcutta), trial operation with a single trolleybus on a short test line took place in 1977.
Iran
Japan
Notes for the two tunnel trolleybus lines:
The 6.1 km Kanden Tunnel Trolleybus line operated almost entirely in tunnel, through a mountain, and connected Ōgizawa Station with Kurobe Dam, for tourists and hikers. The transport service continues to operate, but no longer uses trolleybuses. 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").
Kazakhstan
Note: A Russian-language source [1] states that system in the city of Turkistan became an unrealised project.
Kyrgyzstan
Malaysia
Mongolia
Myanmar
Nepal
North Korea
Philippines
Saudi Arabia
Singapore
Sri Lanka
Tajikistan
Turkey
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
Note: A Russian-language source "Электротранспорт в городах бывшего СССР". Archived from the original on 16 December 2012. states that systems were under construction in the following locations:
Angren
Chirchiq
Guliston
Qarshi
Kokand
Navoiy
Termez
Yangiabad
Vietnam
Europe
Austria
Goods (freight) line (trolleytruck):
Belarus
Note: Plans were announced in 2001 for new systems in:
Baranovichi
Barysaw
Lida
Molodechno
Novopolotsk
Orsha
Pinsk
Polotsk
Soligorsk
(Trolleybus Magazine)
Belgium (by province)
Antwerp (Antwerpen)
Brussels
Note: The Brussels-Capital Region is not a province. Neither does it belong to one, nor does it contain any.
East Flanders (Oost-Vlaanderen)
Liège
Bosnia-Herzegovina
Bulgaria
Croatia
Czech Republic
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Italy
Latvia
Lithuania
Moldova
The Netherlands
Gelderland
Groningen
South Holland (Zuid-Holland)
Note for Rotterdam: Trolleybus overhead installed in the Maas tunnel in 1941, on instructions from German military authorities. Not used.
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Romania
First trolleybus system in Romania opened in Chernivtsi on 1 February 1939. Today, the city is part of Ukraine.
Russia
Serbia
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Turkey
See Asia section of list, above. Although trolleybuses served the European part of Istanbul, the country's three other trolleybus systems (and a fourth under construction currently) were or are all located in the Asian part of Turkey.
Ukraine
United Kingdom
Oceania
Australia
New South Wales
Queensland
South Australia
Tasmania
Western Australia
New Zealand
United States (territories only, in Oceania)
Hawaii (Territory of)
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.
See also
Trolleybus usage by country
List of light-rail transit systems
List of town tramway systems
List of rapid transit systems
References
Books
Gregoris, Paolo; Rizzoli, Francesco; and Serra, Claudio. 2003. "Giro d'Italia in filobus" (ISBN 88-7785-193-7). Cortona: Editore Calosci.
Jones, David. Australian Trolleybuses. Wellington: City Tramway Publications.
Mackinger, Gunter. 1979. "Obus in Österreich" (ISBN 3-900134-62-6). (Eisenbahn-Sammelheft Nr. 16.) Wien: Verlag Slezak.
Millar, Sean. 1986. "Trolleybuses in New Zealand" (ISBN 0-908726-20-1). Auckland: Millar Publishing.
Peschkes, Robert. "World Gazetteer of Tram, Trolleybus, and Rapid Transit Systems."
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.
Part Three, Europe (ISBN 0-948619-01-5). 1993. London: Rapid Transit Publications.
Part Four, North America (ISBN 0-948619-06-6). 1998. London: Rapid Transit Publications.
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.
"Straßenbahnatlas ehem. Sowjetunion" / "Tramway Atlas of the former USSR" (ISBN 3-926524-15-4). 1996. Berlin: Arbeitsgemeinschaft Blickpunkt Straßenbahn, in conjunction with Light Rail Transit Association, London.
"Straßenbahnatlas Rumänien" (compiled by Andreas Günther, Sergei Tarkhov and Christian Blank; ISBN 3-926524-23-5). 2004. Berlin: Arbeitsgemeinschaft Blickpunkt Straßenbahn.
Tarkhov, Sergei. 2000. "Empire of the Trolleybus: Vol 1 - Russia" (ISBN 0-948619-02-3). London: Rapid Transit Publications.
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.
Periodicals
"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).
External links
All Time List of North American Trolleybus Systems (David Wyatt)
Bibliography of the Electric Trolleybus (Richard DeArmond)
"Электротранспорт в городах бывшего СССР". Archived from the original on 16 December 2012. (Elektrotransport v gorodakh byvshego SSSR, Dmitry Zinoviev)
World tram and trolleybus systems (рус., en.)
Latin American Trolleybus Installations (Allen Morrison)
The Tramways of Cuba (Allen Morrison)
TrolleyMotion
Progetto Città Elettriche (Italy)
Tram.nu Atlas (Bruse LF Persson)
UK Trolleybus Systems & Museums (Bruce Lake)
Wires of Faded Glory (Richard A. Bílek)
World Trolleybus List - Systems Closed
Tom's North American Trolley bus Pix
TRANSIRA Association (Romanian Trolleybuses)
Trolleybus in Europe (public-transport.net)
World Map of Trolleybus systems in operation (TransPhoto)