Trolleybuses in Varna

The Varna trolleybus system (Bulgarian: Варна Тролейбусен транспорт) forms part of the public transport network of the Black Sea city and municipality of Varna, the third most populous city in Bulgaria.

Varna trolleybus system
A Škoda 26Tr Solaris trolleybus in Varna, 2016.
Operation
LocaleVarna, Bulgaria
Open1 January 1986 (1986-01-01)
StatusOpen
Routes4
Operator(s)Gradski Transport ATP
Infrastructure
Depot(s)1
Stock32 trolleybuses
WebsiteGradski Transport ATP (in Bulgarian)


History
A DAC-Chavdar 317ETR trolleybus in 1993

The system was opened on January 1st 1986, it was the 4th network to open in Bulgaria after Sofia, Plovdiv and just a few months earlier Pleven.

Initially the network expanded rapidly reaching its peak of 8 lines at some point. First the city received 15 new trolleybus Skoda 14TR and 3 used Skoda 9TR from Sofia and Plovdiv, the latter ones were used for training purposes. The following years the city received 15 more new Skoda 14TR and 36 new articulated DAC-Chavdar.

In 1999 the city bought 3 used Skoda 14TR (one of them modernized) from Czechia.

In 2003 the city bought 5 used Skoda 15TR from Czechia to replace the already out of service DAC-Chavdar vehicles. Additional 4 used Skoda 15 TR were bought from Czechia and Slovakia in 2007.

In 2017 all Skoda 15TR were taken out of service due to a fire that burnt down one of them.

In 2014 along with 3 other cities Varna was granted money through a European Union program to purchase 30 new trolleybuses Skoda Solaris 26TR which replaced all remaining Skoda 14TR (Two units were kept to be used for training purposes).

Lines

Current routes:[1]
Line Route Notes
82 Rail Station - City center - bul Slivnica - Vladislav Varnenchik (block 407)
83 Rail Station - City center - bul Slivnica - Mladost - TIS North Monday through Friday only
86 Pochivka- City Center - Asparuhovo Monday through Friday only (Due to the current pandemic the line is not operating)
88 Asparuhovo - City Center - Mladost - Vladislav Varnenchik (block 407)

Previous routes
Line Route Notes
81 Neptun terminus - bul Slivnica - Vladislav Varnenchik (block 407) Initially terminated at Konstantin Fruzhin stop before the line was extended to block 407
81A/82A Rail Station - City center - bul Slivnica - Vladislav Varnenchik (via Yanko Mustakov street) Line 81A terminated at “Neptun” stop
84 Pochivka- City Center - Varna Shipyard
85 Cherno More AD - bul Slivnica - City Center - Varna Shipyard The infrastructure from bul Slivnica to Cherno More AD has been dismantled
86/86A Pochivka - Rail Station 86A terminated at Srednoshkolska stop in the evenings
87 Cherno More AD - bul Slivnica - Vladislav Varchenchik (block 407) The infrastructure from bul Slivnica to Cherno More AD has been dismantled

Fleet

Current fleet
Brand Quantity Entered service
Skoda Solaris 26TR 30 2014
Skoda 14TR 2 1986-87

Former fleet
A Skoda 14Tr trolleybus on route 83. These vehicles were retired in 2015, except for two which are used for training purposes.
Brand Quantity Entered Service Retired Comments
Skoda 14TR 33 1986-1987; 1999 2015 2 units were sold to Haskovo and 2 units were kept in Varna as training vehicles
Skoda 15TR 9 2003; 2007 2017 All vehicle pulled out of service due to an accidental fire on one of the vehicles.
Dac Chavdar 317ETr 36 1988-1990 2003 Vehicles were unreliable and with a lot of technical issues.
Skoda 9TR 3 1986 ??? Used for training purposed only, received from Sofia and Plovdiv.


See also

References
  1. ""Градски транспорт" ЕАД: Тролейбусен Обслужвани линии" [Gradski Transport ATP: trolleybus serviced lines]. GT Varna website (in Bulgarian). GT Varna. Retrieved 20 January 2012. External link in |work= (help)

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