Website with a world trolleybus map

[alex397]

I thought this would be the best forum for this query.

I have often looked online for a map which shows all the trolleybus systems of Europe, and the rest of the world, to get a quick overview of a certain country’s different systems.

For trams and metro systems, there is the excellent UrbanRail site. For example, their map of Europe can be seen here: http://www.urbanrail.net/eu/euromet.htm

Is there anything like this for trolleybus systems?

 

[DanielB]

Not really a map, but there is an extensive list at Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybus_usage_by_country#Europe

 

[alex397]

Not really a map, but there is an extensive list at Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybus_usage_by_country#Europe

Thanks you. It’s a very useful list on there, but I find maps much easier to visualise.

 

[martinsh]

https://www.trolleymotion.eu/trolleystaedte/ has a World map, but once you click on the country it just lists the systems rather than displays a map

 

[dutchflyer]

Its indeed much worse for trolley´s as for tram/subway/metro. However, the urbanrail site does show in most countries it covers also trolleynetworks, at least in those cities that have them both-thats mostly east-Europe.
You may know the editor, mr. Schwab (or so) also sells books/atlases, with a little more elaborate text as on the site. The newer ones do indeed also show local trolleynetworks (f.e. for Pl, CZ, SK, HU most recently).
I subscribe since many years to the Trolleybus Magazine, by the BTC=british Tr. Company and indeed for some obscure and now closed systems info on them sometimes only comes years after actual abandonment.