Wellington trolleybus
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The Wellington trolleybus has been the only trolleybus operation in New Zealand since 1982 (apart from the museum operations in the Foxton Trolleybus Museum and the Ferrymead Heritage Park ), and also the only one in Oceania . The operation was opened on June 20, 1949, previously there was already a trolleybus service in the New Zealand capital from September 29, 1924 to May 1932. Most recently, a total of nine lines were served, the operating company was Go Wellington , which in turn belonged to NZ Bus , an Infratil company .
The company in Wellington last renewed its fleet in 2007. The first two prototypes with a futuristic design had been on the road since this year, and a total of sixty-one trolleybuses had been procured by 2009. The modern low-floor vehicles replaced the 26-year-old Volvo fleet and cost 460,000 Australian dollars per car. They had 49 seats and an auxiliary battery drive and were manufactured in Ashburton . The overhead line was also in need of overhaul.
In addition to the Tateyama Tunnel Trolleybus and the Kanden Tunnel Trolleybus in Japan , the operation in Wellington was one of the last three trolleybus networks that are operated in left-hand traffic . Other New Zealand trolleybus operations previously existed in Christchurch (1931 to 1956), Auckland (1938 to 1980), New Plymouth (1950 to 1967) and Dunedin (1950 to 1982).
On October 31, 2017, the system was shut down after almost 60 years despite massive protests from the population.
Representative of the first generation of vehicles from 1924
The first trolleybus of the last generation
Volvo trolleybuses retired from 2007
The line network
An older car
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Beginning of the end for Wellington's trolley buses as ax falls on Hataitai route (English), October 5, 2015; accessed on May 5, 2016