‘Electric bus’ usually means a bus that relays in batteries to supply electricity to the motor(s). When, instead, it uses trolly poles (plural, it needs two) it’s called ‘trolleybus’.
The third one is weirder. It’s like a tram/trolley, but I don’t see any pole or pantograph to supply the energy. I’ve read about diesel ‘tram-trains’, essentially several trams or light rail vehicles linked together. Do you know something more about this last one?
Technically this type of trolleybus also has a battery for very short runs so it can run between power lines.
The last one was a temporary conversion of a 260 into a railbus near Pusztaszabolcs, and it ran on diesel which made sense as a lot of Hungarian lines were not - and still are not - electrified. It later got converted back because the large wheelbase made it struggle with turns on the line.
These small lines in Hungary are usually serviced by BzMot diesel trains.
‘Electric bus’ usually means a bus that relays in batteries to supply electricity to the motor(s). When, instead, it uses trolly poles (plural, it needs two) it’s called ‘trolleybus’.
The third one is weirder. It’s like a tram/trolley, but I don’t see any pole or pantograph to supply the energy. I’ve read about diesel ‘tram-trains’, essentially several trams or light rail vehicles linked together. Do you know something more about this last one?
Technically this type of trolleybus also has a battery for very short runs so it can run between power lines.
The last one was a temporary conversion of a 260 into a railbus near Pusztaszabolcs, and it ran on diesel which made sense as a lot of Hungarian lines were not - and still are not - electrified. It later got converted back because the large wheelbase made it struggle with turns on the line.
These small lines in Hungary are usually serviced by BzMot diesel trains.
I got it from Hungarian Wikipedia https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sínautóbusz
A rail conversion! That’s pretty cool, like in RttF2!
I didn’t know trolleybuses already had batteries back in the eighties, I thought it was a more recent development, that’s super cool too.
Also, that 260 is a fine looking bus, most buses I’ve seen in the last decades looked pretty mah imo.