Rimini – Riccione trolleybus

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Rimini – Riccione trolleybus
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Van Hool AG300T wagon 36505 in 2015
Basic information
Country Italy
city Rimini
opening January 1, 1939
operator Trasporto Passeggeri Emilia-Romagna
Infrastructure
Route length 12.20
Power system 750 volts direct current
business
Lines one
vehicles 6 articulated trolleys Van Hool AG300T (on order: 9 Van Hool ExquiCity18)
Network plan

The Rimini – Riccione trolleybus - Filovia Rimini – Riccione in Italian - is a trolleybus system in northern Italy . Of Rimini starting operates the transport companies Agenzia Mobilità provincia di Rimini ( AM ) along the Adriatic the overhead line 11 to the neighboring Riccione . Today's 12.20 kilometer long operation has existed since January 1, 1939.

business

The line 11 is seven rounds in the 15-minute clock served. Because only five trolleybuses are available, this is done in mixed operation with diesel buses . Some of the courses end early at Rimini train station or at Piazzale Curiel in Riccione. The latter are designated with the deviating line signal 11 /, that is, it is a dashed line . In the summer season, the trolleybus now only runs every 15 minutes. Up until 2008, however, a ten-minute cycle was common, sometimes every 7/8 minutes. A total of 54 stops are served. These are numbered, the number is marked with red numbers on white boards. The signs hang on the cross wires of the overhead line.

The route originally ended in Riccione on Piazzale Curiel before being extended to Terme on August 1, 2001. In Rimini, too, the terminal has changed three times. At first she was in Piazza Tre Martiri. After this, together with the adjacent Via Quattro Novembre, was converted into a pedestrian zone, the trolleybuses turned in Piazzale San Girolamo for several years from November 2, 1998. From September 15, 2009, line 11 also ran through Via Aponia to the central bus station in Piazzale Gramsci. Because the catenary infrastructure was not modified, the trolleybuses used their auxiliary diesel drive for a few hundred meters , and wiring and disconnection was automatic. On June 1, 2011 the terminal was moved back to Piazzale San Girolamo. Today, the trolleybuses serve a 500-meter-long loop of houses in a clockwise direction - this leads through Via Roma, Via Clementini and Via Aponia back to Via Dante Alighieri.

The depot is located in Via Enrico Coletti, north of the bridge over the canal.

In August 2017, only diesel buses drove, the overhead line has been partially dismantled.

vehicles

Car 1006 in 2007

The five trolleybuses are low-floor articulated wagons of the type AG300T that were acquired by the Belgian manufacturer Van Hool in 2009. The electrical equipment comes from Kiepe , the company numbers are 36502 to 36506 (originally 6501 to 6505). A sixth AG300T was bought in 2011, no. 36506. They replaced the 17 two-axle, high-floor solo cars with the numbers 1001 to 1017. These were of the Volvo / Mauri / Ansaldo B59 type and were built between 1975 and 1977. Three vehicles with the numbers 1014-1016 remained in the depot (as of 2016).

Web links

Commons : Rimini trolleybus  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Rimini trolleybus on "TrolleyMotion"
  2. ↑ J. Lehmann (October 7, 2018). "Rimini (IT) - Nine trolleybuses ordered from VanHool / Kiepe-Electric"
  3. ↑ Top performance on Ferragosto, report on www.trolleymotion.ch from August 16, 2010  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.trolleymotion.ch