wire-wires

[ANDREWWALLFORD123]

More careful to ride them by trolleybuses! Something is too much over power-bus of headline, is possible cause is electric link is explosion on by trolleybus!!!

[citytransportinfo]

@ANDREWWALLFORD123

sorry Andrew, I do not understand what you are saying!

Simon

[drumsyeah]

Wow.......that was incredibly exciting....

[TheMike0825]

its just low voltage dc powered light rail its like 600 volts

[0866trainsEWS]

cool

thanks for telling me something i did not know

[OLTCITKA]

Great video,lots of good detail and valuable information about the switches. Thanks!

[tickyul]

Drove etb's for years, really a neat job. But the passengers.....that is a different story, try to concentrate on driving and the passengers want you to babysit them.

[0866trainsEWS]

the over head wires are called pantographs

[citytransportinfo]

@0866trainsEWS not on trolleybuses / only on some types of train & tram (also known as light rail and streetcar).

Simon

[JBofBrisbane]

@0866trainsEWS - no, they're called overhead wires. Pantographs are the folding collectors on electric trains and some light rail vehicles. The straight poles with brass wheels or carbon slides on the ends are called trolley poles. For more on overhead wiring, see also "catenary".

[stakeee]

this mechanism is called a trolley pole, because its a pole that has a trolley(a wheel, but that was in the first models, now its just a slider) on it

the pantograh is a little more complicated sistem, i would call it a triangly of poles holding a sleed that slides on the wires/catenary

[JBofBrisbane]

@0866trainsEWS - The overhead wires are called "overhead wires". The collectors seen used in this clip are called "trolley poles".

[Mcoov]

Seems kinda lame that they're using trackless trolleys instead of actual trolleys. Both are bound by electric wires, so they can't stray from their path.

[JBofBrisbane]

@Mcoov - but it costs so much less not to have to dig up the streets to lay rails in them.

[RoyHess666]

these wires can sometimes cause much trouble :/

[ROCKSTARCRANE]

Maintenance nightmare...........

[AmazinglyAgnostic]

@ROCKSTARCRANE agree.

[CombatPara]

those things look disgusting

[StolenMonkey]

Tbus coming to Leeds :D

[jilbert01]

I would drive a Delorian if I lived there

[soundseeker63]

Thats intersting, they're like wire-points, instead of track points.

[RITKAS]

normaly there comes sparks out if he goes through the wire

[citytransportinfo]

that might depend if the bus is coasting (rolling on its own momentum) or the motors are working / drawing power.

Simon

[stakeee]

it depends, old wire junctions have the efect of witch your talking about, it also depends on the condiont of the trolleys pole they are

from my point of view these german models are pretty hightek and in a good working order comparing with other classical models ive obzerved

[RITKAS]

well on Skoda trolleybuses usually there came sparks out although they have modern trolleys too

[stakeee]

its not necesery to be an old model it dependens on the condition of the vehicule or the wires if they are maintained or not

[RITKAS]

for example in Vilnius the most wires are new and modern and the vehicles are in good condition too and there came at the most time sparks out...and in Esslingen (Germany) i saw the Vanhool trolley there came sparks out too =) but at the end not always it happens

[stakeee]

i guess then another factor matters, in this case the way the wire junction and/or the trolley pole design are built

[dbootsthediva]

I notice a darker type blue around the

wires. Do you?

[citytransportinfo]

I think that this might just be fringing from the heavy compression of the video - to reduce the file size and therefore reduce the time it takes to download.

Simon

[RitterDR]

the best city of the world

[Wally1967]

What city is this by the way?

[Wally1967]

nevermind ----> Filmed in Solingen, Germany

[Wally1967]

How that work tho?

[citytransportinfo]

varies city to city, but the system might be compterised, it might work on radio waves rom a switch in the driver's cab. it might work on whether the driver is drawing power at a specific location, or the old fashioned way - someone pulls a cable (which makes the route change) on a nearby overhead wire support pole as the trolleybus passes by... (used to be the bus conductor, when they existed).

[citytransportinfo]

note how the route changes just before and just after the third trolleybus passes by.