Trolleybuses in Ancona

[1][3] An interurban trolleybus line connecting Ancona with Falconara Marittima opened on 26 June of the same year.

[8] The new wiring was not tested by a trolleybus for the first time until February 2005, delayed by the need to refurbish or replace a substation.

[10] Trolleybus operation continued to be limited to the hours of 6:00 am to 1:20 pm, Mondays to Saturdays, but it was planned to alter the wires in the city centre to enable the afternoon-pedestrianised street to be bypassed and trolleybus service expanded to all-day.

The change had long been planned, and some or most of the vehicles had been modified to run on the higher voltage several years earlier, but modification of the substations was not completed until 2012.

[15] The route comprising the present Ancona trolleybus system is: This is an amalgamation of the previous lines 1 and 4.

System map as of 1960, including the independently operated interuban route
Current system map (since 2006)
Menarini trolleybus 4 inbound from Tavernelle in 2007, less than one year after trolleybus service to that hilly district was restored after 32 years
Fiat 2401 trolleybus no. 21 circa the 1960s