Trolleybus Geneva

Trolleybus Geneva
TPG Swisstrolley 741 in action on line 7
Basic information
Country	Switzerland
city	Geneva
opening	September 11, 1942
operator	Transports publics genevois (TPG)
Transport network	Unireso
Infrastructure
Power system	600 volts direct current
Depots	Jonction (Depot) Bachet-de-Pesay (main workshop)
business
Lines	6th
vehicles	90 (79 articulated and 11 double articulated trolleys)
Network plan (as of December 2019)

The Geneva trolleybus is the second largest trolleybus system in Switzerland after the Lausanne trolleybus . It was opened on September 11, 1942 and has since complemented the Geneva tram that opened in 1862 . Today the transport company Transports publics genevois - abbreviated TPG , until 1976 Compagnie Genevoise des Tramways Électriques - operates six trolleybus lines in the city of Geneva and the neighboring communities of Cologny , Le Grand-Saconnex , Lancy , Meyrin , Onex and Vernier . They are supplemented by various bus lines from the same company. The municipalities of Bernex and Confignon have not been served since December 11, 2011 ; the connection there has been converted to tram operation.

Lines

There have been six lines in the Geneva trolleybus network since 2011:

line	route	Stops	Travel time	Vehicle use
2	Genève-Plage - Bel-Air - Onex -Cité	26th	33 minutes	Articulated trolley
3	Gardiol - Gare Cornavin - Bel-Air - Crêts-de-Champel	25th	35 minutes	Articulated trolley
6th	Vernier -Village - Gare Cornavin - Genève-Plage	25th	36 minutes	Articulated trolley
7th	Aubépine - Hôpital - Bel-Air - Lignon -Tours	22 (25)	33 (36) minutes	Articulated trolley
10	Aéroport - Gare Cornavin - Bel-Air - Rive	19th	31 minutes	Double articulated trolley
19th	Vernier-Village - Gare Cornavin - Bel-Air - Onex-Cité	31	45 minutes	Articulated trolley

vehicles

Current

The TPG trolleybus fleet has consisted exclusively of low-floor trolleys since the end of 2014 . These include 81 articulated and ten double articulated cars , the latter being used on Line 10.

	Numbers	piece	Manufacturer	Electrics	Type	Art	Years of construction
	702-703, 705-706, 708, 711	6th	NAW / Hess	FIG	Swisstrolley 1	joint	1993
	731-768	38	Hess	Box	Swis trolley 3	joint	2005
	781-790	10	Hess	Box	lighTram 3	Double joint	2005-2006
	1601-1633	33	Van Hool	Box	Exqui.City 18T / AG300-TRL-T	joint	2014

The loner 721 was created in autumn 2003 by adding a third part of the car 709 of the Swisstrolley (BGT-N) type built in 1993. It was the first Swiss double-articulated trolleybus and served as a prototype for the series lighTram 3 (BGGT-N2C) car. In the summer of 2016 he was taken out of service due to its age and the difficulty in keeping spare parts. A decision has not yet been made about the whereabouts of the parked vehicle.

The 18-meter-long VanHool Exqui.City articulated trolleys replaced the last non-barrier-free types GT 560 / 620-25 and BGT 5-25 at the end of 2014 . They offer 86 standing and 41 seats and have an auxiliary battery drive, which has a range of seven to fourteen kilometers. The series cost 29.42 million Swiss francs , and the first car went into operation on Line 3 on January 21, 2014.

Former

The following series have since been withdrawn:

	Numbers	piece	Manufacturer	Electrics	Type	Art	Years of construction	comment
	801-812	12	Saurer / homemade	SAAS		Solo, high floor	1942-1948
	821-835	15th	Saurer / Hess	SAAS		Solo, high floor	1950-1951
	836-846	11	FBW	MFO		Solo, high floor	1947	used by the Zurich trolleybus
	847-856	10	FBW	MFO	Tr51	Solo, high floor	1949-1951	used by the Zurich trolleybus
	861-878	18th	Berna / SWP	SAAS		Solo, high floor	1959-1960	Use until 1988
	881-892	12	Berliet	SAAS		Solo, high floor	1963	In use until 1975
	601-621	21st	Berna / SWS	SAAS	4 GTP	Joint, high floor	1965	Use until 1990
	631-648	18th	FBW / Hess	SAAS	91 GTS	Joint, high floor	1975	VST standard paintwork ex works, use until 2005
	663-674	12	Saurer / Hess	BBC Sécheron	GT 560 / 620-25	Joint, high floor	1982-1983	Use until 2014
	681-700	20th	NAW / Hess	BBC Sécheron	BGT 5-25	Joint, high floor	1987-1988	Use until 2014
	721	01	NAW / Hess	FIG	lighTram 1	Double joint, low floor	2004	Use until 2016

The retired cars 602–605, 607, 609, 611–613, 615–618, 621, 643 and 644 were handed over to Chile in the early 1990s . There they got to the Santiago de Chile trolleybus and the Valparaíso trolleybus , but have now all been taken out of service.

Operating facilities

Hess trolleybuses parked next to a diesel bus in the Jonction depot

The Jonction depot is located in the Geneva district of the same name, in the immediate vicinity of the confluence of the Arve and the Rhone . The operating facilities there extend on both sides of the avenue de la Jonction and are connected to the overhead lines of lines 2 and 19 to Onex-Cité via this service route.

The main workshop Bachet-de-Pesay on Route de la Chapelle in Grand-Lancy , which does not have a contact line connection to the trolleybus network, is available for heavy maintenance . The TPG administration is also located on the premises.

Web links

Commons : Trolleybuses in Geneva  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the Transports publics genevois
• Information on the Geneva trolleybus at www.trolleymotion.ch
• Picture gallery on www.railfaneurope.net
• The Geneva trolleybus on public-transport.net

Individual evidence

1. ^ History of the Geneva trolleybus at www.trolleymotion.com
2. ↑ Les véhicules on tpg.ch
3. ↑ Trolleybus articulé VanHool Exqui.City 18T / AG300-TRL-T on tpg.ch
4. ↑ http://www.trolleymotion.eu/www/index.php?id=38&L=0&n_ID=2590. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 23, 2017 ; Retrieved April 22, 2017 . 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.  
5. ↑ Plus accessible et confortable: l'Exqui.City, nouveau trolleybus des tpg, a été inauguré ce matin sur la ligne 3 on tpg.ch
6. ↑ Depot TPG de la Jonction ( Memento of the original from March 20, 2015 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. on www.tpg.ch