List of trolleybus systems in Spain
Encyclopedia
This is a list of trolleybus systems in Spain by autonomous community
. It includes all trolleybus
systems, past and present.
Autonomous communities of Spain
An autonomous community In other languages of Spain:*Catalan/Valencian .*Galician .*Basque . The second article of the constitution recognizes the rights of "nationalities and regions" to self-government and declares the "indissoluble unity of the Spanish nation".Political power in Spain is...
. It includes all trolleybus
Trolleybus
A trolleybus is an electric bus that draws its electricity from overhead wires using spring-loaded trolley poles. Two wires and poles are required to complete the electrical circuit...
systems, past and present.
Andalusia
| Name of System | Location | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cádiz Cádiz Cadiz is a city and port in southwestern Spain. It is the capital of the homonymous province, one of eight which make up the autonomous community of Andalusia.... |
1951 | 1975 | ||
Aragon
| Name of System | Location | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zaragoza Zaragoza Zaragoza , also called Saragossa in English, is the capital city of the Zaragoza Province and of the autonomous community of Aragon, Spain... |
1950 | 9 Oct 1975 | ||
Basque Country (autonomous community)
| Name of System | Location | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bilbo / Bilbao Bilbao Bilbao ) is a Spanish municipality, capital of the province of Biscay, in the autonomous community of the Basque Country. With a population of 353,187 , it is the largest city of its autonomous community and the tenth largest in Spain... |
20 Jun 1940 | 28 October 1978 | ||
| Donostia / San Sebastián San Sebastián Donostia-San Sebastián is a city and municipality located in the north of Spain, in the coast of the Bay of Biscay and 20 km away from the French border. The city is the capital of Gipuzkoa, in the autonomous community of the Basque Country. The municipality’s population is 186,122 , and its... |
17 Jul 1948 | 24 Dec 1973 | ||
| ♦ San Sebastián - Tolosa Tolosa, Spain Tolosa is a town and municipality to the south of Donostia-San Sebastián in the Basque province of Gipuzkoa, Spain. It is located in a valley of the river Oria and overlooked by Uzturre, a white cross-topped mountain.-Famous people from Tolosa:... |
6 Jun 1947 | 11 Jul 1968 | ||
Cantabria
| Name of System | Location | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Santander Santander, Cantabria The port city of Santander is the capital of the autonomous community and historical region of Cantabria situated on the north coast of Spain. Located east of Gijón and west of Bilbao, the city has a population of 183,446 .-History:... |
1951 | 25 Feb 1975 | ||
| ♦ Santander - Astillero | 17 Jul 1955 | Aug 1975 | ||
Catalonia
| Name of System | Location | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barcelona Barcelona Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of... |
7 Oct 1941 | 7 Oct 1968 | ||
| Tarragona Tarragona Tarragona is a city located in the south of Catalonia on the north-east of Spain, by the Mediterranean. It is the capital of the Spanish province of the same name and the capital of the Catalan comarca Tarragonès. In the medieval and modern times it was the capital of the Vegueria of Tarragona... |
2 Oct 1952 | 22 Jan 1973 | ||
Galicia (Iberian peninsula)
| Name of System | Location | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Coruña / La Coruña A Coruña A Coruña or La Coruña is a city and municipality of Galicia, Spain. It is the second-largest city in the autonomous community and seventeenth overall in the country... |
26 Jul 1948 | 4 Jan 1979 | ||
| Pontevedra Pontevedra Pontevedra is a city in the north-west of the Iberian Peninsula. It is the capital of both the comarca and province of Pontevedra, in Galicia . It is also the capital of its own municipality which is, in fact, often considered as an extension of the actual city... |
15 Dec 1943 | 31 Aug 1989 | ||
Madrid (autonomous community)
| Name of System | Location | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Madrid Madrid Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan... |
8 Apr 1950 | 30 Apr 1966 | ||
ValenciaValencian CommunityThe Valencian Community is an autonomous community of Spain located in central and south-eastern Iberian Peninsula. Its capital and largest city is Valencia...
| Name of System | Location | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Castellón de la Plana Castellón de la Plana Castellón de la Plana or Castelló de la Plana is the capital city of the province of Castelló, in the Valencian Community, Spain, in the east of the Iberian Peninsula, on the Costa del Azahar by the Mediterranean Sea... |
1962 25 Jun 2008 |
1969 - |
Source . Name of system is TRAM. | |
| Valencia | 18 Jul 1951 | 21 May 1976 | ||
See also
- List of trolleybus systems, for all other countries
- TrolleybusTrolleybusA trolleybus is an electric bus that draws its electricity from overhead wires using spring-loaded trolley poles. Two wires and poles are required to complete the electrical circuit...
- List of town tramway systems
- List of light-rail transit systems
- List of rapid transit systems
Books and periodicals
- Murray, Alan. 2000. '"World Trolleybus Encyclopaedia" (ISBN 0-904235-18-1). Reading, Berkshire, UK: Trolleybooks.
- Peschkes, Robert. 1993. "World Gazetteer of Tram, Trolleybus, and Rapid Transit Systems, Part Three: Europe" (ISBN 0-948619-01-5). London: Rapid Transit Publications.
- Trolleybus Magazine (ISSN 0266-7452). National Trolleybus Association (UK). Bimonthly.