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The Maidstone trolleybus system once served Maidstone, the county town of Kent, England. Opened on 1 May 1928 ( 1928-05-01 ) , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] it gradually replaced the Maidstone tramway network . By the standards of the various now defunct trolleybus systems in the United Kingdom , the Maidstone system was a small one, with just two routes, and a ...
A diamond (♦) symbol denotes a system that operates or operated in the same area as another independent system. Names and cities of currently operating systems appear in bold on blue backgrounds. Interurban and light rail systems are denoted in the Type column, which is left blank for the far-more-plentiful streetcar systems. (Some pre-1970s ...
This is a list of trolleybus systems in the United Kingdom by Home Nation and by regions of England.It includes: Past trolleybus systems in the UK. Museums in the UK capable of running trolleybuses (i.e. possessing overhead wires and trolleybuses in working order).
Speeder in use in Santa Cruz, California. A speeder (also known as a section car, railway motor car, putt-putt, track-maintenance car, crew car, jigger, trike, quad, trolley, inspection car, or draisine) is a small railcar used around the world by track inspectors and work crews to move quickly to and from work sites. [1]
Cart from 16th century, found in Transylvania A dumper minecart used in the Basque Country, currently at the Minery Museum.. A minecart, mine cart, or mine car (or more rarely mine trolley or mine hutch) is a type of rolling stock found on a mine railway, used for transporting ore and materials procured in the process of traditional mining.
PTC fare tokens. The Philadelphia Transportation Company (PTC) was the main public transit operator in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from 1940 to 1968.A private company, PTC was the successor to the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company (PRT), in operation since 1902, and was the immediate predecessor of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA).
This 1947 photo shows a soon to be retired streetcar passing a new electric trolley bus, the kind of vehicle that would replace it. Looking east, at a streetcar, on 8th Avenue W, at Centre Street, Calgary, 1912. The Calgary municipal railway operated a system of streetcar routes in Calgary, Alberta, from 1909, until 1950.
The Boston-area trolleybus (or, as known locally, trackless trolley) system formed part of the public transportation network serving Greater Boston in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. It opened on April 11, 1936, [2] [3] with a large network operating for the next quarter-century.