Trolleybus and tramway

The echoes of BVG’s latest 50-meter tram in Berlin, unveiled in July 2024, had not yet died down when we witnessed another record in Germany, this time in the Rhine Necktar Region (RNV) where a 60-metre long tram, an absolute world record, went into service. This is the new ForCity Smart 38 T,...

Good news for the trolleybus world come from Landskrona, a town in southern Sweden of about 30,000 inhabitants and the only one with a trolleybus system in Sweden, active since 27 September 2003. It is a small network, just 3.4 km long, but important for the town’s mobility. The trolleybus lin...

Just days after finalizing an agreement with TL of Lausanne for the supply of 53 trolleybuses, Carrosserie Hess,, won a tender from Verkehrsbetriebe Biel, Switzerland for the supply of 18 new trolleybuses, including 14 18-meter articulated and four 12-meter single-case (Lightram 12 DC model) trolley...

BVG in Berlin confirms itself as an increasingly customer-oriented company, and thanks to the monitoring of passenger flows and the network has in its continuous improvement measures to ensure increasingly comfortable and reliable travel and to convince more and more Berlin citizens to switch from p...

Swiss Hess has increased its trolleybus order book considerably in less than a month. The Bellach-based manufacturer has signed orders with two Swiss transport companies for a major renewal of their trolleybus fleets in Lucerne and Lausanne, confirming the strong partnership with both networks. New ...

Trolleybus projects and investments are on a rise in several European countries. Switzerland, France, Austria, Italy, Poland, Czech Republic are among the countries where trolleybus networks are more diffuse. Significant renewal plans are underway. Also Berlin is considering new investments on this ...