Trolleybuses in Basel

The trolleybus Basel was the trolleybus system of the Swiss city of Basel. The Basel traffic (BVB ), until 1946 Basel Trams ( BStB ) called him operated 1941-2008 as a supplement to the Basel tram or urban bus services. At times, wrong three lines, two of which led to the northern neighboring municipality of Riehen.

History

The individual sections of the Basel Trolley bus network went into operation as follows:

Underframe were the vehicles in the garage Rankstrasse on the line 31 via a connection from the German railway station operation range, this was also linked to the line 33. After the line was 34 on 9 September 2000 and the line 33 changed on 13 December 2004 on bus operations, perverted on 30 June 2008 on the 4.9 km long line 31 of the last trolleybus. This was preceded by a popular initiative to rescue the trolley bus, which was however rejected by the voting citizens on 17 June 2007 to 27'403 23'645 votes ( 53.7 percent).

Rolling stock

For the trolleybus Basel together 52 vehicles were procured, the cars 921 and 922 were used here taken from the trolleybus Kaiserslautern:

Some decommissioned vehicles were delivered after Pazardzhik and Rousse in Bulgaria and to Brasov in Romania, car 358 is in the possession of the Museum Association RétroBus Léman. As Fahrleitungsenteiser served until the cessation of bus number 48, this, he had also mounted pantographs.

919 cars in Braşov

922 cars in Braşov