The Electric Trolleybus (ETB) Town Eberswalde




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These Internet pages want to present Germany's oldest electric trolleybus system, a type of local public transport very free of pollution. Eberswalde has the only trolleybus network in the five new states of the Federal Republic of Germany, which formerly lay in the German Democratic Republic.

This homepage was initiated on 04 May 1997 and last revised on 05 March 2010. Use the browser of your choice! Cascading Stylesheets (CSS) and on a limited scale JavaScript are in use. An activation of JavaScript in your Browser is however not mandatory! I have tried to use not specific browser-based HTML.



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Table of contents

1.Geographic location of the Electric Trolleybus Town Eberswalde
2.Trolleybus operations
2.1.Trolleybus routes
2.1.1.Trolleybus line 861
2.1.2.Trolleybus line 862
2.2.Vehicles
2.2.1.1.Rolling stock of the trolleybuses
2.2.1.2.Articulated trolleybus of the Austrian type ÖAF Gräf & Stift NGE 152 M17
2.2.1.3.Historic trolleybuses
2.2.2.1.Rolling stock of the historic trolleybus trailers
2.2.2.2.Historic trolleybus trailers
2.2.3.1.Auxiliary vehicles
2.2.3.2.Historic auxiliary vehicles
2.3.Direct current supply and trolleybus overhead
2.4.Passengers
2.5.Tickets and fares
2.6.Timetables
2.7.Drivers
2.8.Depot
3.Perspectives and economics regarding the trolleybus traffic
4.History of Eberswalde 's trolleybus system
4.1.Period from 1842 to April 1945
4.2.Period from May 1945 to 1965
4.3.Period from May 1966 to 1989
4.4.Period from 1990 to 1995
4.5.Period from 1996 to 2000
4.6.Period from 2001 to the present time (Revised!)
5.Sources
6.Interesting links on the Internet
7.Index




These pages are under construction and constantly being further developed. Special thanks to Mr. Vadims Falkovs, Riga/Latvia for the translation of these Internet pages into Russian. Further thanks to Achim, Andreas, Martin, Ronald, Mr. Frank Munnes, Mr. Thomas Bretscher, Winterthur/CH, Mr. Mattis Schindler, Mr. Jürgen Lehmann and also to Mr. Cecil Houk, San Diego/USA and other not listed persons for their assistance. Do not hesitate to write to me an

Hartmut Bülow, Erwin.Lottermann@t-online.de

if you have desires, questions, opinions or corrections (especially regarding the English and Russian translation), or notes or tips for these pages. Assistance for the translation is cordially welcome! I look forward to your e-mail and remain, sincerely,

Hartmut Bülow




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