Trolleybuses are popular in Limoges for their silent operation, their lack of pollution and their performance in the steep streets.

With the replacement of trams by trolleybuses on lines 5 and 1 in March and July 1951, operations on Limoges' urban tramway were finally terminated.

9, expanded the Limoges trolleybus system to a route length of 26 km (16 mi).

Further extensions in 1963 and 1965 left the system at its current route length of 32 km (20 mi).

The five trolleybus lines in Limoges now represent about 53% of passengers carried, and one third of the mileage on the city's overall bus network.