Kabul trolleybus
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The Kabul trolleybus was the only trolleybus operator in Afghanistan .
history
The plant in the Afghan capital Kabul opened on February 9, 1979 and - depending on the source - had to be shut down again in 1992 or 1993 as a result of the Afghan civil war . The only operated route was 12.5 kilometers long and connected the Hotel Spinzar with the textile factory. In fact, it was served by three different lines , each covering a section of the entire route. A separate ticket had to be purchased for each section, continuous tickets were not offered. Line numbers were not used, only the respective destination was displayed:
- Hotel Spinzar - Silo
- Pamir Silo Cinema
- Pamir cinema textile factory
When it opened in 1979, only the middle section of the Pamir silo cinema went into operation; the depot was also located in this section . The plant was built between 1976 and 1979 with the help of Czechoslovak experts. The Škoda company supplied 25 solo trolleybuses of the type 9TrH23, painted blue and white .
In later years the line was extended at both ends. At that time, the sections Silo – Hotel Spinzar and Kino Pamir – textile factory were created under Afghan direction. The fleet was expanded by a further 61 of the same type. The company in Kabul had a total of 86 vehicles, of which between 55 and 60 courses were in use at the same time during rush hour .
On November 7, 2003, the Afghan Deputy Transport Minister Said Ahmad Roheen and a Czech consortium of companies under the leadership of the Brno company Královopolská Ria signed a contract in Prague for the re-establishment of a trolleybus network in Kabul. In total, a 27-kilometer route network was to be rebuilt or newly built by autumn 2011 and operated with 50 two-axle used cars of the older type Škoda 14Tr .
Web links
- Detailed description of the establishment with pictures and map on Společnost pro veřejnou dopravu (English)
- The trolleybus city of Kabul on www.trolleymotion.com
- Article of the IWPR about the planned reconstruction of the network
Individual evidence
- ↑ City traffic. Issue 01/04, p. 58.
- ↑ Czech consortium to rebuild Kabul trolleybus network. ( Memento of the original from May 26, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Ariana TV on November 8, 2003.
- ↑ Kabul transit solution? Czechs to deliver trolley buses ( Memento of the original dated August 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Radio Sada-e Azadi on March 14, 2010.
