Trolleybus Tehran
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 On the central square Emam Hossein in November 2011
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closed: 15.3 km in operation: 1.8 km |
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The Tehran trolleybus is the only trolleybus operator in Iran . The plant in the capital Tehran went into operation in 1992 and today still comprises two of what were once five lines . In addition to the Tehran subway, which opened in 1999, the trolleybus is the city's only track-based local means of transport. It is operated by the United Bus Company of Tehran , or UBCT for short , which is also responsible for other city bus services.
history
For reasons of environmental protection, among other things, the Tehran city administration decided in the early 1990s to set up a trolleybus operation in parallel with the construction of the subway. At the end of 1990 a contract was signed with several partners from what was then Czechoslovakia . This envisaged the creation of the infrastructure including overhead line systems , substations and workshops as well as the delivery of Škoda vehicles. This agreement also resulted in the higher-than-usual driving voltage of 750 volts direct current , which was also used in the systems in Banská Bystrica and České Budějovice that were opened in 1989 and 1991, respectively . A few years earlier, Czechoslovak experts were already helping to build the former Kabul trolleybus in the neighboring state of Afghanistan , which existed from 1979 to 1992/93.
Construction work on the first Tehran trolleybus line, which has now been closed again, began in August 1991. This was 6.9 kilometers long and ran from the central Emam Hossein square in a north-easterly direction through the Damavand arterial road to the final stop at Terminal-e-Sharq . It went into operation on September 14, 1992 and was served by lines 1 and 2. The latter was an express line which traveled the same route as line 1, but served fewer intermediate stops . In order to be able to overtake the courses of line 1, it had its own centrally arranged catenary pair as a special feature. The northeast route ran continuously on structurally separated bus lanes in the middle of the street. At the beginning of 2011, this branch was integrated into the local Bus Rapid Transit system, which was opened in 2008 and operated with diesel buses . For this purpose, the bus stops have centrally located bus platforms for both directions, the BRT buses have doors on the left for this purpose. The overhead lines were removed.
The second subnetwork in the south, which was opened later and is still in operation, also originates from Emam Hossein . An originally 5.7 kilometer long stretch led from there in a southerly direction through the Hefdah-e-Shahrivar road over the Meydan-e-Chorasan to Bozorgrah-e-Be'sat . It is used by line 4 and is also equipped with an additional pair of catenaries up to the junction into the depot . Unlike on the former north-east route, however, the trolleybuses on the southern network share the road space with private transport . At times there was also a line 3 between Emam Hossein and Meydan-e-Chorasan , which was also an express line and used the central contact line.
A side branch of the southern sub-network branched off about 500 meters south of Meydan-e-Chorasan in a westerly direction and initially led 1.3 kilometers to Meydan-e-Shoosh . On March 13, 2010, this route was finally extended by 3.2 kilometers via Shoosh underground station to Meydan-e-Rah Ahan - the forecourt of the Iranian State Railways station. The secondary branch was served by line 5, which also began at Emam Hossein .
From 2013 onwards, operations were temporarily completely shut down, and the contact line systems were also removed. However, the trolleybus went back into operation on March 21, 2016 on the 1.8-kilometer Bozorgrah-e-Be'sat – Meydan-e-Chorasan section of line 4. An extension by rebuilding parts of the old line is being considered.
Depots and vehicles
The north-eastern branch of the route had its own depot; it was located within the Terminal-e-Sharq turning loop and also housed the main workshop . The remaining depot for the southern routes is a few hundred meters before the Bozorgrah-e-Be'sat terminus of line 4.
Articulated vehicles of the Škoda 15Tr type are used almost exclusively . They come from a series originally comprising 65 vehicles, which were imported in 1991 (car numbers 794 to 828) and 1992 (car numbers 921 to 950). There is also a prototype of a solo car built in Iran around 2005 , based on the Volvo B10M.
The cars can be found in two different paint schemes. The green, yellow and white painted vehicles, including the only two-axle vehicle, were originally located in the abandoned northern depot and were reserved for the former lines 1 and 2. The painting scheme corresponds exactly to the one in České Budějovice, which started its trolleybus operation a year before Tehran and was also equipped by Škoda.
The vehicles previously only used on lines 3, 4 and 5 were painted blue and white and were provided by the southern depot. After the northern branch and line 3 were discontinued, trolleybuses in both color schemes ran on the remaining lines 4 and 5.
During the shutdown between 2013 and 2016, some of the 30 remaining 15Trs were extensively modernized for use on Line 4, for example they were given completely new front and rear sections as well as a completely new exterior design. In addition, the cars have had license plates since then .
The green-yellow-white painted car 814 in the terminal Meydan-e-Rah Ahan at the train station
The blue and white painted car 819
Separate women's compartment in the trailer of a 15-door articulated car
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literature
- City traffic 3/93: Tehran relies on trolleybuses from Václav Riedel, Tehran and Martin Harák, Prague
Web links
- Official website of the operating company United Bus Company of Tehran
- Information on the Tehran trolleybus at www.trolleymotion.ch
- Gallery and information on www.sfu.ca
- Gallery on www.railfaneurope.net
- Route map on mosfont.ru
Individual evidence
- ↑ Connection to the train station opened in March 2010 , report on www.trolleymotion.ch of April 18, 2011 ( 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.
- ↑ Trolleybus operation ceased in 2013 , message on www.trolleymotion.eu from December 1, 2014 ( memento of the original from January 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
- ↑ Resumption of trolleybus operations , report by Dirk Budach on trolleymotion.eu, published on July 11, 2016, accessed on August 12, 2016
