[3] The fleet later included 25 1947-built Pullman-Standard trolley buses acquired secondhand from Birmingham, Alabama, which entered service in March 1957.

[10] However, drivers considered the Pullmans awkward to operate, and the vehicles were found to be surplus to the company's needs; they were taken out of service in 1960[10] and scrapped in 1961.

Vancouver's Flyer model E800s were new vehicles except for the propulsion system, which used recycled General Electric equipment[11] from the earlier Brill T-44s.

[15] After withdrawal of the last E800s, in early 1987, Flyer E901A/E902 vehicles made up the whole of the Vancouver trolley bus fleet for almost 20 years.

Although no longer scheduled for use, the express wires were kept in place and would see occasional use by very late-running trolleys on route 14 Hastings attempting to regain lost time.

[24] An extension from Blanca Street to UBC opened in September 1988,[24] bringing trolley bus service back to routes 10 and the Hastings Express.

[18] In September 2003, trolley bus route 19 Kingsway was extended to a new terminus within Stanley Park, using 0.80 kilometres (0.5 mi) of new wires.

[27] In December 1993, route 19 was cut back to Burrard Street in downtown on weekdays (with a diesel shuttle covering the section to Stanley Park loop) and converted to diesel buses on weekends, after the unsignalized left turn into the terminal loop was deemed to be too hazardous in weekday traffic conditions.

New Flyer Industries in Winnipeg won the contract for the supply of the new vehicles, with electrical equipment by the German company Vossloh Kiepe.

[8] With the opening of the SkyTrain's Canada Line, routes 3 Main, 10 Granville, and 17 Oak were extended to Marine Drive station on 7 September 2009, using new overhead wires installed along a 2.2-kilometre (1.4 mi) section of Marine Drive between Oak Street and Main Street.

A few rush hour trips had continued to use trolley buses until September 2000, after which its overhead wires remained in place but were not used for any service.

One feature of the Trollino 12 is its ability to use its battery and go off-wire – when catenary wires are damanged, during road detours, etc.

The Vancouver Trollino 12 test was the first time a Solaris vehicle operated in North America and represents part of the company's plans to expand into the continent's market.

[53] Originally, and for 58 years, the trolley bus fleet was maintained and based at Oakridge Transit Centre,[a] located on West 41st Avenue just east of Oak Street.

[31][32] TransLink continued to allow storage of preserved vehicles of the Transit Museum Society (TraMS) at the Oakridge site, and its workshops also remained in operation for some time for use by technicians from New Flyer and Kiepe Electric who were inspecting and preparing for service the new trolley buses that were still being delivered at that time.

[32][21] Work to dismantle most of the overhead wires at the former garage began in February 2011, prior to the planned sale of the property for redevelopment,[21] and the last two TraMS vehicles left in October 2012.

[60] The overhead wire maintenance department remained based at the site until 2016, and the property was put up for sale later that year.