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Busscar trolleybus in São Paulo, Brazil Solaris trolleybus in Landskrona, Sweden Video of a trolleybus in Ghent, Belgium. A trolleybus (also known as trolley bus, trolley coach, trackless trolley, trackless tram – in the 1910s and 1920s [1] – or trolley [2] [3]) is an electric bus that draws power from dual overhead wires (generally suspended from roadside posts) using spring-loaded ...
Trolley pole on a Toronto streetcar, tipped with a trolley shoe. A trolley pole is a tapered cylindrical pole of wood or metal, used to transfer electricity from a "live" (electrified) overhead wire to the control and the electric traction motors of a tram or trolley bus. It is a type of current collector.
An overhead line or overhead wire is an electrical cable that is used to transmit electrical energy to electric locomotives, electric multiple units, trolleybuses or trams. The generic term used by the International Union of Railways for the technology is overhead line . [ 1 ]
Trolley pole wheel on top of the trolley pole of Twin City Rapid Transit Company No. 1300. A current collector (often called a "pickup") is a device used in trolleybuses, trams, electric locomotives and EMUs to carry electric power from overhead lines, electric third rails, or ground-level power supplies to the electrical equipment of the vehicles.
A trolleybus northbound on Av. Jean-Jaurès, a steep section without guide rail and with only one lane for both directions. However, following accidents on 6 March and 9 March, when trolleybuses were changing from guided to unguided mode and struck adjacent overhead-wire support poles, all trolleybus operation was suspended indefinitely.
South of Carbonara, where the last trolleybus service had ceased in December 1981, [14] the overhead trolley wiring was a bi-directional single set of wires, and this configuration was retained after the 2009–2010 renewal work. [25]
Overhead lines or overhead wires are used to transmit electrical energy to trams, trolleybuses or trains. Overhead line is designed on the principle of one or more overhead wires situated over rail tracks. Feeder stations at regular intervals along the overhead line supply power from the high-voltage grid.
Trolley wire may refer to: Overhead line, used to transmit electricity to trains, trams and trolleybuses; Trolley Wire, magazine published by the Sydney Tramway Museum