Trolley bus on the turntable at Solingen Burg, Germany. Western europes largest trolley bus network.
During World War II, Solingen's streetcar system, like those in most other German cities, was severely damaged, in fact almost completely destroyed along with the rest of the inner city. Rather than rebuild the system anyway, as most other cities did, Solingen chose to replace it with electric trolleybuses (in German, Oberleitungsbus or Obus for short), which came into operation during 1952-1959. Solingen is now one of three German cities that still operate trolleybuses; the other two are Esslingen and Eberswalde. Its system is by far the largest of the three, and was even extended during the 1980s and 1990s. Solingen's trolleybus fleet consists of rigid units built by MAN of Germany (1986-87), and articulated units built by Berkhof of the Netherlands (2001) and Van Hool of Belgium (2002).
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