Global News Hour Final - December 20, 2011 - Trolley Bus Dewiring and Resetting

Squire Barnes and Randene Neill of Global News Hour Final (6 p.m.) on December 20, 2011 features a piece on trolley bus dewiring (when the trolley goes off the line) and resetting. Permission to post given by Global News.

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• De-Wire
• Dewire

[smwca123]

Dal Grauer, mentioned in the story, not only dewired but broke the pole!

[MrTrolleyharry]

@jemdude22 You´re right. In Arnhem we also have only a few dewirements. But look at the overhead system that is used in this video. Runwires almost straight under the spanwires, like they changed an old tram overhead somewhat to make it suitable for trolleybus operation. In Zürich like in Arnhem the modern elastic overhead system of Kummler & Matter is used. That makes a big difference. In the first scene the cause of the dewirement is clearly a missed switch or one that didn't work.

[jemdude22]

Dewiring hardly happens on trolleybuses in Zurich.... almost never happens!!