The Geneva

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system () forms part of the

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network in

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. It is the second largest

system in Switzerland, after the Lausanne system. Opened in 1942, the system supplements the Geneva tramway network. It is operated by ''

Transports publics genevois Geneva Public Transport (, TPG) operates most of the public transportation system in canton of Geneva, Switzerland, including the city of Geneva. The agency's head office is in Grand-Lancy, Lancy. The TPG operates trams, trolleybuses and b ...

'' (TPG), and currently also serves the neighbouring municipalities of Bernex,

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, Confignon,

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, Onex and

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History

Geneva's first trolleybus line, inaugurated on 11 September 1942, linked

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with Le Petit-Saconnex, replacing the former tram line. Like the tramway network, it was operated by the ''Compagnie Genevoise des Tramways Électriques'' (CGTE). In subsequent years, other tram lines were closed and replaced with trolleybus lines: *in 1950, line 4; *in 1959, line 6; *in 1961, line 2. Additionally, two trolleybus lines replaced former bus lines: * in 1950, line 7 to

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; * in 1959, line 33 to

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. In 1971, line 4 was closed. In 1976, the name of the operator, CGTE, was changed to ''Transports Publics Genevois'' (TPG). On 25 September 1989, line 5 was merged into line 6. For more than a decade, some services on the extended line 6 were operated by conventional buses (fully trolleybus line 26 was supporting it till Châtelaine), but on 24 June 2001 the line reverted to operation solely by trolleybuses.

Lines

Since the reorganisation of Geneva's tram and trolleybus lines on 11 December 2011, the trolleybus lines have been as follows:

Fleet

Current fleet

Geneva's present trolleybus fleet consists of 94

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and ten bi-articulated vehicles:

Past fleet

The following table summarises Geneva's former trolleybuses: A number of Geneva's former trolleybuses, fleet nos. 32, 96, 602–605, 607, 611–613, 615–617, 621, 643 and 644, were exported to Chile in the early 1990s. Some of these exported vehicles remained in service on the Valparaíso trolleybus system for many more years, the last two being withdrawn in 2013 and 2014.''Trolleybus Magazine'' No. 318 (November–December 2014), p. 154. National Trolleybus Association (UK). . The unique NAW/Hess bi-articulated vehicle, fleet no. 721, was created in autumn 2003, by adding a third (middle) body section to the 1993-built trolleybus no. 709 of type BGT-N. It was the first Swiss bi-articulated trolleybus and served as a prototype for the production vehicles of type BGGT-N2C. All of the bi-articulated vehicles are used on line 10.

History

Lines

Fleet

Current fleet

Past fleet

See also

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