After more than 70 years in operation, Greece is preparing to phase out trolleybuses from the streets of Athens.

“Our trolleybus is in the Guinness World Records,” said Petr Kotler, a construction worker from Partizanskoye, a small city 12 miles north of Yalta, where he was boarding the bus. Well, not quite.

Modern trolleybus poles connect and disconnect from the wires with a driver operated switch. Reconnecting is done at stops with plastic “rooftops” to guide the connector onto the wire.

They were the original electric buses but 50 years ago today saw the plug pulled on the last trolleybus in Wales. Environmentally friendly and cheap, they finally succumbed to car ownership and ...

The trolleybus drives on with ease, going up and down the serpentine road. Mountain ridges and thick forest frame the road from both sides. The road tilts up and the trolleybus seems to start puffing.

Lithuania’s capital, Vilnius, has signed a contract to purchase more than 70 new trolleybuses from Polish manufacturer ...

A trolleybus that last saw service in Ipswich more than 50 years ago is ready to carry passengers again. Trolleybus 105, new in 1948, was one of 126 built for Ipswich Corporation between 1923 and ...

Yet another Russian attack left part of the city of Sumy without electricity and details of the incident and its aftermath have not been revealed. Source: Sumy City Council in a statement Details: The ...

The building began life in 1921 as a depot for York’s expanding trolleybus fleet - only to close ten years later when the new Fulford bus garage opened. Next, it became an aircraft factory, Airspeed ...

The 1,970 rail, trolleybus, and cable car workers who make Mexico City run could go out on strike as soon as March 13. Their union, the Tram Workers Alliance of Mexico (Alianza de Tranviarios de ...

The Trolleybus Garden asserts the fact that Krasojevic does not produce for the simplistic pursuit of form but goes beyond that; this is not architecture for the sake of architecture.

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