Trolleybuses in Cagliari

The Cagliari trolleybus system (Italian: Rete filoviaria di Cagliari) forms part of the public transport network of the city and comune of Cagliari, in the region of Sardinia, Italy.

Cagliari trolleybus system
A Socimi 8845 trolleybus in the busway next to Via Roma, in central Cagliari
Operation
Locale	Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy
Open	1952
Routes	3
Operator(s)	CTM (Cagliari)
Infrastructure
Electrification	750 V DC parallel overhead lines[1]
Overview
Website	CTM (in Italian)

In operation since 1952, the system presently comprises three routes, serving the city and the surrounding comuni.

Services

The three routes comprising the present Cagliari trolleybus system are:

• 5 Parco San Michele – San Bartolomeo
• 30 Cagliari (Piazza Matteotti) – Selargius – Quartu Sant'Elena – Cagliari (Piazza Matteotti)
• 31 Cagliari (Piazza Matteotti) – Quartu Sant'Elena – Selargius – Cagliari (Piazza Matteotti)

Trolleybus fleet

Retired trolleybuses

• Fiat 668 Cansa (9 trolleybuses, nos. 501 to 509), served from 1952 to summer 1972.
• Fiat 2405 Casaro (11 trolleybuses, nos 551 to 561), served from 1955 to 1986. The only remaining example, no. 552, is kept at the National Museum of Transport^IT in La Spezia.
• Fiat 2405 Lancia Esatau P (6 trolleybuses, nos. 562 to 567), served from 1957 to 1971.
• Fiat 2405 Casaro (25 trolleybuses, nos. 568 to 592), served from 1962 to 1989.
• Inbus F140 (15 trolleybuses, nos. 601 to 615), served from 1981 to 2003, dismantled in 2008.
• Socimi 8839 (20 trolleybuses, nos. 616 to 635), entered service in 1986-87 season, dismantled in 2012.

Current fleet

• Socimi 8845 (16 trolleybuses, nos. 636 to 651), entered service in 1991-92 season; six were still active as of mid-2014.[2]
• Solaris Trollino 12 (16 trolleybuses, nos. 701 to 716), entered service between March and June 2012.

On order

• Van Hool A330T (14 trolleybuses); order placed in May 2014, with delivery due around mid-2015.[2]

See also

• Cagliari railway station
• List of trolleybus systems in Italy

References

Socimi 8845s at the depot.

Notes

1. Gregoris-Rizzoli-Serra, p. 37.
2. Trolleybus Magazine No. 317 (September–October 2014), p. 131. National Trolleybus Association (UK). ISSN 0266-7452.

Books

• Gregoris, Paolo; Rizzoli, Francesco; Serra, Claudio (2003). Giro d'Italia in filobus [Tour of Italy by trolleybus] (in Italian). Cortona: Calosci Editore. ISBN 88-7785-193-7.

External links

Media related to Trolleybuses in Cagliari at Wikimedia Commons

This article is based upon a translation of the Italian language version as at March 2011.