Bratislava trolleybus

A Škoda 15TrM on line 201 (2014)

The trolleybus Bratislava is the trolleybus system of the Slovak capital Bratislava . It is the oldest and, with a network length of 41.5 kilometers, also the largest in the country. The network was opened on July 31, 1941 as the third modern trolleybus operation in Czechoslovakia - after Prague and Plzeň - and has since supplemented the Bratislava tram, which has existed since 1895 . The trolley bus - as well as the tram and the urban bus service - from municipal transport companies Dopravný podnik Bratislava operated (DPB). Independently of this, the Gleislose Bahn Preßburg – Eisenbrünnl operated in the city from 1909 to 1915 , an early trolleybus operation that was mainly used by day trippers.

Lines

Network plan from 2007, i.e. without line 64

The total of 13 lines operate as follows:

033	Kuklovská - Molecova
064	Lovinského - Jelačičova
201	Dolné hony - Hlavná stanica
202	Dolné hony - Nemocnica sv. Michala
203	Koliba - Búdková
204	Valašská - Rádiová
205	Trnávka - Nemocnica sv. Michala
207	ŽST Železná studienka - Zimný štadión
208	Ružová dolina - Šulekova
209	Kramáre, Národný onkologický ústav - Ružová dolina
210	Hlavná stanica - Nové SND
211	Kramáre, Národný onkologický ústav - ŽST Železná studienka
212	ŽST Železná studienka - Cintorín Vrakuňa

As a special feature, line 33, which was electrified on September 4, 2006, is not connected to the rest of the catenary network. She also kept her bus line number, although numbers in the 200 range are actually intended for trolleybus routes. Similar to line 64, which opened on March 27, 2012, it replaced part of the shortened bus line 41.

vehicles

So far, the following cars have been procured for the Bratislava trolleybus; the vehicle generations currently in use are highlighted in gray:

Numbers	piece	Manufacturer	Type	Art	low-floor	Years of construction	Remarks
61-74	014th	MAN / Sodomka / Siemens		Solo car	No	1941-1942
75-80	006th	FBW / Tüscher / MFO		Solo car	No	1944-1945
81-90, 116-118	013	Škoda	7Tr	Solo car	No	1951	Car 116–118 taken from České Budějovice in 1955
91-115	025th	Tatra Mountains / ČKD	T 400	Solo car	No	1953-1954
135-191	057	Škoda	8Tr	Solo car	No	1957-1960
1-60, 85-126, 130-159, 192-225, 229-230	168	Škoda	9Tr	Solo car	No	1962-1981
226-228	003	Škoda	T 11	Solo car	No	1967
61-78, 6219-6315	115	Škoda	14Tr	Solo car	No	1981-1991	Between 1996 and 2009, 14 cars were converted to 14TrM using new car bodies, 56 were taken out of service, number 6207 (formerly 67) is a museum car
6501-6520	020th	Škoda / FAS 11. Oktromvri Skopje	Škoda-Sanos S 200Tr	Articulated trolley	No	1984-1985
6521, 6601-6606, 6608-6616	016	Škoda	15Tr	Articulated trolley	No	1989-1992	6608 and 6616 retired
6401	001	Škoda	21Tr	Solo car	Yes	2003
6617, 6617-6640	025th	Škoda	15TrM	Articulated trolley	No	1997-2002	The car 6617 built in 1997 was taken out of service in 2001 and replaced by a car built in 2002 with the same number, the cars 6639 and 6640 were taken over from the Czech Republic in 2010 - they come from Zlín and Chomutov, respectively
6701-6706	006th	Škoda	25Tr Irisbus	Articulated trolley	Yes	2006	with auxiliary drive , are only used on line 33
6001-6035, 6101-6115	050	Škoda	Škoda 30Tr SOR	Solo car	Yes	2014-2015	6101–6115 with auxiliary drive
6801-6870	070	Škoda	Škoda 31Tr SOR	Articulated trolley	Yes	2013-2015