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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 ...
An independent system owned by Zhengzhou Coal Industry (Group) Co., Ltd. serving Chaohua Coal Mine and nearby areas Niu'erzhuang Meikuang (牛儿庄煤矿) Trolleybus Niu'erzhuang/Handan: Hebei: January 2010 An independent system owned by Jizhong Energy Group serving Niu'erzhuang Mine and nearby areas Xingtai Meikuang (邢台煤矿) Trolleybus ...
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).
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 ...
Cincinnati Street Railway Marmon-Herrington TC44 trolleybus #1300, photographed as new in 1947 Trolleybus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on the Boston trolleybus system A dual-mode bus operating as a trolleybus in the Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel, in 1990 San Francisco Muni ETI 15TrSF trolleybus #7108, on Van Ness Avenue at Geary Street, in 2004
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 ...
The trolleybus system in Manchester, England, opened on 1 March 1938 (), [1] [2] and gradually replaced certain routes of the Manchester tramway network. [3] Manchester was a belated convert to trolleybuses having already started a programme of tram to diesel bus conversion in the mid-1930s and this, overall, continued to be the preferred option for tram conversion that was completed in 1949.
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.