Jon Searles' photos with the keyword: trolleybus

Here's a front view of the bus, revealing the Skoda logo above the bumper. The trolley pantograph is fully retracted here, and the bus is starting to pull away under diesel power.

This is, surprisingly enough, a hybrid bus, for lack of a better term. It can run off of catenary like a trolleybus, or on diesel like a conventional bus. It looks like a Karosa, but it's actually built by Skoda, a traditional trolleybus maker. Here you can see it retracting its trolley pantograph.

Here's a shot of the bus terminal that I managed to get in a shadow. As you can see, many of Hradec Kralove's buses are trolleybuses.

This busboard wasn't outside Hradec Kralove Hlavni Nadrazi on my last visit several years ago, and for that matter, the whole bus terminal was so freshly rebuilt and maintained this time that its whiteness was giving me some exposure difficulties with the camera.

#494 is not a tram, of course, but a 1959 Skoda 8 Tr. Trolejbus, or Trolleybus to English speakers. Many Czech cities still use Trolleybuses, although they're much newer, of course. These cities include Plzen, Hradec Kralove, Ostrava, Zlin, and Brno, and there may be a few more which I'm forgetting. In any case, this bus is now definitely historic, not only because of its age but because DPP stopped running trolleybuses in 1972.

Here's one of the Hradec Kralove transit authority's trolejbuses (trolleybuses, etc. in English). They're quiet, clean, and pretty reliable, although the routes tend to circle the city centre rather than going straight in, and they're about as rough-riding and uncomfortable as any other buses. Cool idea, though, and practical.