Trolleybuses in Winterthur
The Trolleybus Winterthur is the trolleybus system of the Swiss city of Winterthur. The Company operates city bus Winterthur - in addition to various bus lines - three routes electrically. All lines are diameter lines and meet at Winterthur train station, which is referred to by city bus as the Winterthur main station.
Lines
During the renovation of the Winterthur station square of 4 July 2012 to 28 June 2013, the coming from the direction Oberwinterthur courses of the line 1 from Central Station wrong as line 2 on to Wülflingen during the coming from the direction of lakes courses of the line 2 in the Technikumstrasse held and more than one line wrong after Töss.
History
The trolleybus replaced 1938-1951 successively operated by the same company tram Winterthur. After the trolley in Lausanne, he was the second modern trolleybus Switzerland. The individual sections went into operation as follows:
With the timetable change on 23 May 1982, the Rosenberg line (line 3) of the width line (new line 4) was isolated. This ring line 4 was on May 28, 1995 changed the construction of the new Storchenbrücke back on Dieselbusbetrieb, the last remnants of this catenary line disappeared in late January 2010. Lines 3 and 6 were linked in December 2006 to the current line 3.
Rolling stock
Former
All previously discarded Winterthur trolleybuses were high -floor cars:
In the prototype 120, a new electrical equipment with chopper control of Strömberg was used, in order to save costs but a used BBC traction motor from a discarded solo trolleybus was reused.
Cart 147 is equipped with a Enteisereinrichtung and serves as a work car. Former Winterthur trolleybuses were delivered to the cities of Burgas and Ruse in Bulgaria and Baia Mare and Timişoara in Romania. Some of them are still in use there.
Today
The Trolleybus Winterthur stand together 33 vehicles available, of which are required simultaneously at peak times 31 today. If more than two cars from, there is a mixed operation with diesel buses. All Winterthur trolleybuses are low-floor articulated trams:
Gallery
Meanwhile decommissioned Saurer Gelenkwagen 128 from 1982, recorded in 2005 in Upper Lake
A Mercedes -Benz O 405 GTZ at the station
A Solaris Trollino 18 in Töss