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This is a list of trolleybus systems in Brazil by Estado . It includes all trolleybus systems, past and present.
Busscar trolleybus in São Paulo , Brazil
Name of system
Location
Date (from)
Date (to)
Notes
Salvador
9 January 1959
June 1968
Name of system
Location
Date (from)
Date (to)
Notes
Fortaleza
25 January 1967
February 1972
Minas Gerais [ edit ]
Name of system
Location
Date (from)
Date (to)
Notes
Belo Horizonte
30 May 1953
22 January 1969
Construction of a second system was started, in the late 1980s,[1] but never completed, and the plans were eventually cancelled.
Pernambuco [ edit ]
Name of system
Location
Date (from)
Date (to)
Notes
Recife
15 June 1960
24 September 2001 [2]
Rio de Janeiro [ edit ]
Name of system
Location
Date (from)
Date (to)
Notes
Campos (dos Goytacazes)
29 June 1958
12 June 1967
Niterói
21 November 1953
10 November 1967
Rio de Janeiro :
♦ Zona Norte
April 1965
April 1971 (?)
♦ Zona Sul
3 September 1962
July 1968 (?)
Rio Grande do Sul [ edit ]
Name of system
Location
Date (from)
Date (to)
Notes
Porto Alegre
7 December 1963
19 May 1969
São Paulo [ edit ]
See also [ edit ]
Sources [ edit ]
Books and periodicals [ edit ]
Murray, Alan. 2000. World Trolleybus Encyclopaedia (ISBN 0-904235-18-1 ). Reading, Berkshire, UK: Trolleybooks.
Peschkes, Robert. 1980. World Gazetteer of Tram, Trolleybus, and Rapid Transit Systems - Part One, Latin America (ISBN 1-898319-02-2 ). Exeter, UK: Quail Map Company.
Trolleybus Magazine (ISSN 0266-7452). National Trolleybus Association (UK). Bimonthly.
Website [ edit ]
References [ edit ]
^ Trolleybus Magazine (TM) No. 164, March–April 1989, p. 40.
^ TM No. 257, Sep.-Oct. 2004, p. 111.
^ TM No. 227, Sep.-Oct. 1999, p. 112.
External links [ edit ]