Trolleybuses in Ancona

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Ancona trolleybus system
Operation
Locale	Ancona, Marche, Italy
Open	1949 (1949)
Status	Open
Routes	1
Operator(s)
Infrastructure
Stock	9
Overview
Website	Conerobus (in Italian)

The Ancona trolleybus system (Italian: Rete filoviaria di Ancona) forms part of the public transport network of the city and comune of Ancona, in the Marche region, central Italy. In operation since 1949, the system presently comprises only one urban route.

Services[]

The route comprising the present Ancona trolleybus system is:

• 1/4 Piazza IV Novembre - Tavernelle

This is an amalgamation of the previous lines 1 and 4. The amalgamated line has the following itinerary: viale della Vittoria, piazza Cavour, piazza Roma, Archi, Ancona railway station, viale Giordano Bruno, piazza Ugo Bassi, via Torresi, Tavernelle (terminus).

Trolleybus fleet[]

Retired trolleybuses[]

The following now retired trolleybuses have been used in Ancona:

• Fiat 668 F/110 (12 trolleybuses, Stanga bodies, nos 1-12), served from 1949-50 to 1983;
• Fiat 668 F/110 (4 trolleybuses, Stanga bodies, nos 13-16), served from 1952-53 to 1983;
• Fiat 2401 (5 trolleybuses, Cansa bodies, nos 17-21), served from 1956-57 to 1987.
• Menarini F201/2LU (6 trolleybuses, nos 1-6), entered service 1983; rebuilt 2001 with electrical equipment by Albiero & Bocca; withdrawn 2013;
• Menarini F201/2LU (3 trolleybuses, nos 7-9), entered service 1987; rebuilt 2001 with electrical equipment by Albiero & Bocca; withdrawn 2013.

Current fleet[]

Ancona's present trolleybus fleet is made up of only the following two types:

• Solaris Trollino (3 trolleybuses), entered service 2013.^[1]
• Breda F22 (6 trolleybuses), entered service 2014.^[2]

See also[]

• List of trolleybus systems in Italy

References[]

Notes[]

Books[]

• Gregoris, Paolo; Rizzoli, Francesco; Serra, Claudio (2003). Giro d'Italia in filobus [Tour of Italy by trolleybus] (in Italian). Cortona: Calosci Editore. ISBN 88-7785-193-7.

External links[]

Media related to Trolleybuses in Ancona at Wikimedia Commons

• Images of the Ancona trolleybus system, at railfaneurope.net
• Images of the Ancona trolleybus system, at photorail.com
• "Trolleybus city: Ancona (Italien)". Trolleymotion.
• Ancona database / photo gallery and Ancona trolleybus list at Urban Electric Transit – in various languages, including English.

This article is based upon a translation of the Italian language version as at July 2011.