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Solingen: The Battery Trolleybus BOB as the backbone of electric urban transport by trolleymotion

In Solingen, the debate about the long-term future of battery trolleybus operations has once again resurfaced. A study focusing solely…


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Solaris: Emission-free buses dominate the business by Christian Marquordt

On 12 March 2025, Solaris reported on its 2024 financial year at its annual press conference. Javier Iriarte, CEO of Solaris, was able…


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25 years Trolleybus Museum Solingen by Christian Marquordt

On 2 July 1999, an association was founded in Solingen with the aim of maintaining and preserving the historic trolleybus 59 (temporarily…


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Solingen: Two new lines with battery trolleybuses and the official project completion by Christian Marquordt

Solingen converted two more routes to battery-trolleybus operation (Batterie-Oberleitungs-Bus BOB) and celebrated the official…


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Solingen: New trolleybuses and line 683 back again to Burg by Christian Marquordt

Since Monday, 25 October 2021, line 683 of the Solingen public utility company (SWS) has again been running continuously from the DB…


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In the Basque Country: A turntable for the bus! by Dirk Budach

What do you do when a town is built so close to the hillside that the only major road runs just as narrowly between houses and finally ends…


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Sarajevo: Trolleybus renewal and a tramway order by Erik Buch

The public transport infrastructure of Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, is currently in the process of being comprehensively…


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Leverkusen: Wupper-Sieg takes over buses from RSVG Troisdorf by Christian Marquordt

On June 30, 2021, the private operator “Kraftverkehr Wiedenhoff GmbH & Co KG” based in Solingen ceased operation…


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Obus-Museum Solingen: 40th anniversary of trolleybus line 684 to Hasselstraße by Christian Marquordt

Solingen has one of only three remaining German trolleybus systems today. Once there were more than 70 at a time – in the mid-1950s –…


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Return of another TS trolleybus to Solingen by Franz Grantl

Some five years after the return of one of Solingen‘s iconic „TS“ trolleybuses from Mendoza in Argentina to Europe raised much attention…


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