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Austria None of the Stoll systems replaced streetcar (tram) systems. Info supplied by Wolfgang Auer

Gmünd 16 JL 1907 14 JL 1916 Stoll system. Part of line ran in what was to become Czechoslovakia. (Now the Czech Republic). Closure caused by the dismantling of the Hapsburg monarchy, creating Czechoslovakia is a separate nation.

Graz 1 OC 1940
29 JN 1967 (or) 12 DE 1967
Two contrasting dates given for closure. Had two unconnected lines.

Innsbruck #1 8 AP 1944 29 FE 1976 Reopened in 1988. Original opening delayed due to bombing raid.

Innsbruck #2 18 DE 1988 (operating)

Judenburg ----1910 -----1914 Stoll system. One unnumbered vehicle. It was sent to Kranji in 1917(?) where it never operated, probably due to a political change.

Kalksburg 17 JL 1909 JA 1920 Stoll system. Crossed Vienna streetcar line 60.

Kapfenberg 1 JL 1944 31 MR 02   (to Mürztal)

Klagenfurt 1 AU 1944 16 APR 1963 Had two unconnected lines.

Klosterneuberg 22 MY 1908 -- DE 1919 Stoll system. Had five vehicles.

Leoben 1 MR 1949 13 JL 1973

Linz 15 MY 1944 (operating)

Neustadt Am Walde 1911 19--

Salzburg 1 OC 1940 (operating)

St. Lambrecht 16 NO 1945 21 AP 1951 Freight only line.

Vienna #1 1908 1938 Stoll system: Vienna-Pötzleinsdorf -- Vienna-Salmannsdorf (on the borer of Vienna).

Vienna #2 1909 1917 Stoll system: Vienna-Liesing -- Kalksburg (these suburbs were annexed by Vienna after the line closed.) This is the Kalksburg system list above.

Vienna #3 9 SE 1946 3 DE 1958 Built in 1944, destroyed during a bomb raid before it became operational

Belgium Antwerp 14 AU 1929 30 MR 1964

Brussels 8 AP 1939 15 FE 1964 Only one line.

Ghent 25 MR 1989 (operating) Only one line.

Liège 1 AU 1930 9 NO 1971 Two Guy Motors (UK) electric trolleybuses were sent to Vicinal (NMVB). They were intended for use on the Etterbeek-Overijse line. These were never used by the SNCV. They were sent to Liège in 1942, where they ran until 1952.

Denmark Copenhagen #1 1 FE 1927 16 OC 1971

Copenhagen #2 1993 1999 (early) Duo-bus operation--two coaches. Duo-bus operation ceased in early 1999.

Odense 1939 1959

Estonia Tallinn 1959 (operating)

Finland Tampere 8 DE 1948 15 MY 1976

Helsinki I 15 FE 1949 14 JN 1974

Helsinki II 1 JA 1980 19-- A revenue line, it is closed, it was considered experimental.

France Aix -- Marseille 25 MY 1948 March 1965

Amiens 1946 FE 1963

Aubagne 19 SE 1927 20 JL 1958

Belfort 1952 1 AU 1972

Brest 29 JL 1947 1970

Bordeaux MY 1940 1954

Dijon 7 JA 1950 1966? 30 MR 1956. Once source lists the date in this column, another the date in the preceding column. Standard buses BROSSEL A92 and BL55 as well as SAVIEM SC10 and BERLIET PCMU have been introduced to replace the last fine trolley buses putting at more than 70 years of electric traction (from Historique des transports urbains Dijonnais).

Fontainebleau - Samois 1901 1903 4.6 km. Lombard-Gerin system.

Forbach NO 1950 MY 1970

Grenoble 24 JL 1947 2004?

Le Havre 1 AU 1947 20 DE 1970

Limoges 14 JL 1943 (operating)

Lyon/Charbonnicres -- Trois Renards 1901 1903   3 km. Lombard-Gerin system.

Lyon 4 SE 1936 (operating)

Marseille I 24 MY 1902 31 AU 1905 Two systems? First was a Lombard-Gerin System with a so called "trolley automoteur". One went to Allauch.

Marseille II 22 SE 1927 19--

Marseille III 26 AP 1942 2005

Metz 14 SE 1947 1 MY 1966

Montauban JA 1903 1904 3 km. Lombard-Gerin system.

Mondane-Lanslebourg JN 1922 JN 1940

Montiers -- Villard 19-- 19--

Montier -- Salins 15 AP 1930 1965

Nancy 22 NO 1982 (operating)

Nice 30 AP 1942 12 SE 1970

Nimes 10 JL 1924 31 DE 1927

Paris I 7 AP 1925 DE 1935

Paris II 8 JA 1943 1 AP 1966 Two unconnected systems.

Perpignan 12 SE 1952 JN 1968

Poitiers 9 AU 1943 4 MR 65

Rouen 22 JA 1933 27 JN 1970

St. Etienne 19-- (operating)

St. Malo -- St. Servan 1906 5 JN 1907   Lombard-Gerin system.

Strasbourg 27 MY 39 31 MR 1962

Savoi -- Chamberey 6 OC 1930 1955

Savoi -- Lanslebourg 22 AP 1923 JN 1940

Savoi -- Modana 11 AP 1923 JN 1940

Toulon 1950 20 FE 1973

Tour 5 OC 1949 30 JN 1968

Netherlands, The Arnhem 5 SE 1949 (operating)

Groningen 27 JN 1927 9 NO 1965

Nijmegen 9 JL 1952 29 MR 1969

Norway Bergen 1950 (operating)

Drammen I 15 DE 1909 FE 1916 Narrow gauge overhead (Schiemann, 6"), no special work. At one time two unconnected routes, using the same garage necessitating repoling from one route to the other. Final system one long route with three disctinct branches.

Drammen II 1 MY 1916 10 JN 67 Reopened by new company. After 1949, the last narrow gauge overhead system.

Oslo 5 DE 1943 24 JN 1968

Stavanger 26 OC 1947 17 FE 1962 Norway's smallest system and short lived system.

Sweden Göteborg 2 OC 1940 14 NO 1964

Landskrona 27 SE 2003 (operating) System has 3 Solaris trolleys and no special work.

Stockholm 20 JA 1941 31 AU 1964

Stockholm-Kvarnholm 1941 1959 Ran one trolleybus route, but ran mainly a trolleytruck route to Stockolm's South Station.

Västerås 1935 19-- The one route was a test route for ASEA (today it si Adtranz); it was not a public line.

Switzerland Altstätten - Berneck 8 SE 1940 21 MY 1977 Note: - between two different towns/villages are preceeded and folowed by a space, e.g. Heerbrugg - Berneck. But words like La Chaux-de-Fonds or Les Hauts-Genevays are one town resp. village. Val-de-Ruz is the name of the whole valley.

Basel 31 JL 1941 (operating)

Bern 29 OC 1940 (operating)

Biel 19 OC 1940 (operating) Known as Bienne in Frenchy.

Fribourg 1 4 JA 1912 21 MY 1932 Stoll system.

Fribourg 2 1 FE 1949 (operating)

Genève (Geneva) 11 SE 1942 (operating)

Heerbrugg - Berneck 8 SE 1940 21 MY 1977 May not have been a separate system but part of the Altstatten system.

La Chaux-de-Fonds 23 DE 1949 (operating)

Lausanne 2 OC1932 (operating)

Les Hauts-Genevays - Villiers (Val-de-Ruz) 1 SE 1948 14 AP 1984

Lugano 25 AP 1954 30 JN 2001 291 was the last trolleybus operating on route 3.

Luzern 7 DE 1941 (operating)

Neuchatel 16 FE 1940 (operating)

Rheintal 8 SE 1940 21 MY 1977

Sankt-Gallen 18 JL 1950 (operating)

Schaffhausen 24 SE 1966 (operating)

Thun - Beatenbucht 1 FE 1952 14 MR 1982 On 22 FE 1982 the line was cut back to Oberhofen-Beatenbucht. (The system had operated at 1100 volts. See Thun.former.rte.htm

Vevey - Montreux - Chillon - Villeneuve 18 MY 1957 (operating)

Winterthur 28 DE1938 (operating)

Zürich 27 MY 1939 (operating)

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Country	City	Opened	Closed	Notes

Austria				None of the Stoll systems replaced streetcar (tram) systems. Info supplied by Wolfgang Auer
	Gmünd	16 JL 1907	14 JL 1916	Stoll system. Part of line ran in what was to become Czechoslovakia. (Now the Czech Republic). Closure caused by the dismantling of the Hapsburg monarchy, creating Czechoslovakia is a separate nation.
	Graz	1 OC 1940	29 JN 1967 (or) 12 DE 1967	Two contrasting dates given for closure. Had two unconnected lines.
	Innsbruck #1	8 AP 1944	29 FE 1976	Reopened in 1988. Original opening delayed due to bombing raid.
	Innsbruck #2	18 DE 1988	(operating)
	Judenburg	----1910	-----1914	Stoll system. One unnumbered vehicle. It was sent to Kranji in 1917(?) where it never operated, probably due to a political change.
	Kalksburg	17 JL 1909	JA 1920	Stoll system. Crossed Vienna streetcar line 60.
	Kapfenberg	1 JL 1944	31 MR 02	(to Mürztal)
	Klagenfurt	1 AU 1944	16 APR 1963	Had two unconnected lines.
	Klosterneuberg	22 MY 1908	-- DE 1919	Stoll system. Had five vehicles.
	Leoben	1 MR 1949	13 JL 1973
	Linz	15 MY 1944	(operating)
	Neustadt Am Walde	1911	19--
	Salzburg	1 OC 1940	(operating)
	St. Lambrecht	16 NO 1945	21 AP 1951	Freight only line.
	Vienna #1	1908	1938	Stoll system: Vienna-Pötzleinsdorf -- Vienna-Salmannsdorf (on the borer of Vienna).
	Vienna #2	1909	1917	Stoll system: Vienna-Liesing -- Kalksburg (these suburbs were annexed by Vienna after the line closed.) This is the Kalksburg system list above.
	Vienna #3	9 SE 1946	3 DE 1958	Built in 1944, destroyed during a bomb raid before it became operational
Belgium	Antwerp	14 AU 1929	30 MR 1964
	Brussels	8 AP 1939	15 FE 1964	Only one line.
	Ghent	25 MR 1989	(operating)	Only one line.
	Liège	1 AU 1930	9 NO 1971	Two Guy Motors (UK) electric trolleybuses were sent to Vicinal (NMVB). They were intended for use on the Etterbeek-Overijse line. These were never used by the SNCV. They were sent to Liège in 1942, where they ran until 1952.
Denmark	Copenhagen #1	1 FE 1927	16 OC 1971
	Copenhagen #2	1993	1999 (early)	Duo-bus operation--two coaches. Duo-bus operation ceased in early 1999.
	Odense	1939	1959
Estonia	Tallinn	1959	(operating)
Finland	Tampere	8 DE 1948	15 MY 1976
	Helsinki I	15 FE 1949	14 JN 1974
	Helsinki II	1 JA 1980	19--	A revenue line, it is closed, it was considered experimental.
France	Aix -- Marseille	25 MY 1948	March 1965
	Amiens	1946	FE 1963
	Aubagne	19 SE 1927	20 JL 1958
	Belfort	1952	1 AU 1972
	Brest	29 JL 1947	1970
	Bordeaux	MY 1940	1954
	Dijon	7 JA 1950	1966?	30 MR 1956. Once source lists the date in this column, another the date in the preceding column. Standard buses BROSSEL A92 and BL55 as well as SAVIEM SC10 and BERLIET PCMU have been introduced to replace the last fine trolley buses putting at more than 70 years of electric traction (from Historique des transports urbains Dijonnais).
	Fontainebleau - Samois	1901	1903	4.6 km. Lombard-Gerin system.
	Forbach	NO 1950	MY 1970
	Grenoble	24 JL 1947	2004?
	Le Havre	1 AU 1947	20 DE 1970
	Limoges	14 JL 1943	(operating)
	Lyon/Charbonnicres -- Trois Renards	1901	1903	3 km. Lombard-Gerin system.
	Lyon	4 SE 1936	(operating)
	Marseille I	24 MY 1902	31 AU 1905	Two systems? First was a Lombard-Gerin System with a so called "trolley automoteur". One went to Allauch.
	Marseille II	22 SE 1927	19--
	Marseille III	26 AP 1942	2005
	Metz	14 SE 1947	1 MY 1966
	Montauban	JA 1903	1904	3 km. Lombard-Gerin system.
	Mondane-Lanslebourg	JN 1922	JN 1940
	Montiers -- Villard	19--	19--
	Montier -- Salins	15 AP 1930	1965
	Nancy	22 NO 1982	(operating)
	Nice	30 AP 1942	12 SE 1970
	Nimes	10 JL 1924	31 DE 1927
	Paris I	7 AP 1925	DE 1935
	Paris II	8 JA 1943	1 AP 1966	Two unconnected systems.
	Perpignan	12 SE 1952	JN 1968
	Poitiers	9 AU 1943	4 MR 65
	Rouen	22 JA 1933	27 JN 1970
	St. Etienne	19--	(operating)
	St. Malo -- St. Servan	1906	5 JN 1907	Lombard-Gerin system.
	Strasbourg	27 MY 39	31 MR 1962
	Savoi -- Chamberey	6 OC 1930	1955
	Savoi -- Lanslebourg	22 AP 1923	JN 1940
	Savoi -- Modana	11 AP 1923	JN 1940
	Toulon	1950	20 FE 1973
	Tour	5 OC 1949	30 JN 1968
Netherlands, The	Arnhem	5 SE 1949	(operating)
	Groningen	27 JN 1927	9 NO 1965
	Nijmegen	9 JL 1952	29 MR 1969
Norway	Bergen	1950	(operating)
	Drammen I	15 DE 1909	FE 1916	Narrow gauge overhead (Schiemann, 6"), no special work. At one time two unconnected routes, using the same garage necessitating repoling from one route to the other. Final system one long route with three disctinct branches.
	Drammen II	1 MY 1916	10 JN 67	Reopened by new company. After 1949, the last narrow gauge overhead system.
	Oslo	5 DE 1943	24 JN 1968
	Stavanger	26 OC 1947	17 FE 1962	Norway's smallest system and short lived system.
Sweden	Göteborg	2 OC 1940	14 NO 1964
	Landskrona	27 SE 2003	(operating)	System has 3 Solaris trolleys and no special work.
	Stockholm	20 JA 1941	31 AU 1964
	Stockholm-Kvarnholm	1941	1959	Ran one trolleybus route, but ran mainly a trolleytruck route to Stockolm's South Station.
	Västerås	1935	19--	The one route was a test route for ASEA (today it si Adtranz); it was not a public line.
Switzerland	Altstätten - Berneck	8 SE 1940	21 MY 1977	Note: - between two different towns/villages are preceeded and folowed by a space, e.g. Heerbrugg - Berneck. But words like La Chaux-de-Fonds or Les Hauts-Genevays are one town resp. village. Val-de-Ruz is the name of the whole valley.
	Basel	31 JL 1941	(operating)
	Bern	29 OC 1940	(operating)
	Biel	19 OC 1940	(operating)	Known as Bienne in Frenchy.
	Fribourg 1	4 JA 1912	21 MY 1932	Stoll system.
	Fribourg 2	1 FE 1949	(operating)
	Genève (Geneva)	11 SE 1942	(operating)
	Heerbrugg - Berneck	8 SE 1940	21 MY 1977	May not have been a separate system but part of the Altstatten system.
	La Chaux-de-Fonds	23 DE 1949	(operating)
	Lausanne	2 OC1932	(operating)
	Les Hauts-Genevays - Villiers (Val-de-Ruz)	1 SE 1948	14 AP 1984
	Lugano	25 AP 1954	30 JN 2001	291 was the last trolleybus operating on route 3.
	Luzern	7 DE 1941	(operating)
	Neuchatel	16 FE 1940	(operating)
	Rheintal	8 SE 1940	21 MY 1977
	Sankt-Gallen	18 JL 1950	(operating)
	Schaffhausen	24 SE 1966	(operating)
	Thun - Beatenbucht	1 FE 1952	14 MR 1982	On 22 FE 1982 the line was cut back to Oberhofen-Beatenbucht. (The system had operated at 1100 volts. See Thun.former.rte.htm
	Vevey - Montreux - Chillon - Villeneuve	18 MY 1957	(operating)
	Winterthur	28 DE1938	(operating)
	Zürich	27 MY 1939	(operating)