Berlin (dpa)- The trolleybus is considered by many to be clunky technology from the past. But thanks to technical innovation, these so-called silent servants are staging a comeback as some countries ...

Successive-day bombings on a railway station and a trolleybus in Russia's heartland exposed the challenge President Vladimir Putin faces in ensuring a safe Olympics. A bomb blast ripped a trolleybus ...

About one-fifth of all King County Metro Transit rides are made on an electric bus, powered by a nonpolluting trolley wire overhead. But the agency hasn’t purchased a new trolleybus since 1979. Since ...

The Russians attacked a trolleybus depot in the Slobidskyi district in Kharkiv on the night of 29-30 May. Eighteen trolleybuses and 33 residential buildings were damaged and two employees were injured ...

To get to Yalta, one group of German tourists decide to travel nearly 100 kilometers across the mountains and along the sea by trolleybus instead of taking a taxi. Every 20 minutes, trolleybus 52 ...

“Today, as a result of enemy shelling in the Kovpakivskyi district of Sumy, a wooden farm building, five windows, and the ...

For transport enthusiast Philip Thomas, the final demise of the trolleybus in Derby was marked with a week-long photographic odyssey. He recalled: “On Sunday, September 3, I had a tour of all the ...

Thanks to R. Hill, photographer of the Chicago photo, and to Ken Josephson, computer manipulation of both pictures. The drawing on the left is from a Westinghouse Corp. ad circa 1950. The first ...

Ludmilla Vasilieva, the driver for the 4:05 p.m. trolleybus, stared impatiently at two foreign tourists who were standing at the bus stop in Yalta, Crimea, contemplating their next move. Since the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A plan to introduce trolleybuses to Leeds has been rejected by the government, leaving the city without a mass ...

They were the original electric buses but 50 years ago today saw the plug pulled on the last trolleybus in Wales. Environmentally friendly and cheap, they finally succumbed to car ownership and fossil ...