Trolleybuses in Rimini
Trolleybus 1008 in viale Regina Elena, Rimini
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| Locale | Rimini, Emilia-Romagna, Italy | ||
| Open | 1 January 1939 | ||
| Routes | 1 | ||
| Operator(s) | SITA (1939-1960) ATAM (1960-1992) Tram Rimini (1992-2001) TRAM Servizi (since 2001) |
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| Route length | 12.2 km (7.6 mi) | ||
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| Website | TRAM Servizi (in Italian) | ||
The Rimini trolleybus system (Italian: Rete filoviaria di Rimini), also known as the Rimini–Riccione trolleybus line (Italian: Filovia Rimini–Riccione), forms part of the public transport network of the city and comune of Rimini, in the region of Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy. In operation since 1939, the system links Rimini with the nearby seaside resort and comune of Riccione.
The line was established on 1 January 1939, with an initial fleet of small Fiat 635F and 656F CGE trolleybuses. Responsibility for the management of the line was entrusted to SITA of Florence until 1959.
Classified as line 11, the system passed into the control of ATAM of Rimini by 1960.
Under ATAM's management, the Rimini–Miramare part of the line was numbered 10, which is now the number used to denote the Miramare–Fiera line, operated by diesel buses. However, the reversing loop in the overhead wires that allowed trolleybus services to terminate in Miramare was recently dismantled for the construction of a roundabout. At present, the only reversing loop on the system is at the Miramare Talassoterapico roundabout at Piazzale Giardini in Riccione.
The Miramare section also previously had unique rotating lights to indicate any malfunction on the line, but this feature has also been dismantled.
In the past, all substations serving the line (excluding the new Riccione Abissinia) were equipped with mercury vapor rectifiers, which were housed in buildings with a central chimney to assist with cooling. However, the substations are now all equipped with solid state low thermal output transformers.
In 1992, ATAM was renamed TRAM, and in 2001 its name was modified again, to TRAM Servizi.
Until 2 November 1998, the Rimini terminus of line 11 was in the central Piazza Tre Martiri. On that date, following the conversion of the piazza into a pedestrian area, the terminus was moved to Piazzale San Girolamo, on Via Dante Alighieri. From 1 August 2001 the Riccione terminus, previously sited in Piazzale Giardini, was moved to the area of Riccione Terme, in Piazzale Marinai d'Italia, while the services limited to piazzale Curiel are shown as "11/".
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