Trolleybuses in Saint-Étienne

Saint-Étienne trolleybus system
An Irisbus Cristalis trolleybus in St Etienne in 2009
Operation
Locale	Saint-Étienne, Rhône-Alpes, France
Open	1 January 1942 (1942-01-01)
Status	Open
Routes	1
Operator(s)	Société de Transports de l'Agglomération Stéphanoise (STAS)
Website	https://web.archive.org/web/20061020011554/http://www.stas.tm.fr/ STAS (in French)

A Berliet ER100 trolleybus in St-Étienne in 1981.

The Saint-Étienne trolleybus system (French: Réseau de trolleybus de Saint-Étienne) forms part of the public transport network of the city and commune of Saint-Étienne, in the Rhône-Alpes region of the Great South East of France.

In operation since 1942, the system is one of only three operating trolleybus systems in France; the others are the Limoges system and the Lyon system.

Services

The current Saint-Étienne trolleybus line is:

• 3 : Cotonne – Hôtel de Ville – Terrenoire

Trolleybus fleet

As of 2011, the Saint-Étienne trolleybus fleet consisted of the following types:

• Berliet ER100 (5 trolleybuses, nos. 427, 430, 433, 436, 438), entered service in 1981 (in storage).
• Irisbus Cristalis ETB12 (11 trolleybuses, nos. 111-121), entered service in 2003.

See also

• Gare de Saint-Étienne-Châteaucreux
• List of trolleybus systems in France
• Saint-Étienne tramway

External links

Media related to Trolleybuses in Saint-Étienne at Wikimedia Commons

• Images of the Saint-Étienne trolleybus system, at railfaneurope.net
• "Trolleybus city : St. Etienne". Trolleymotion.
• Saint-Etienne database / photo gallery and Saint-Etienne trolleybus list at Urban Electric Transit – in various languages, including English.

This article is based upon a translation of the French language version as at December 2011.