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This is a list of trolleybus systems in Brazil by Estado. It includes all trolleybus systems, past and present.

Busscar trolleybus in São Paulo, Brazil

Bahia

Name of system	Location	Date (from)	Date (to)	Notes
	Salvador	9 January 1959	June 1968

Ceará

Name of system	Location	Date (from)	Date (to)	Notes
	Fortaleza	25 January 1967	February 1972

Minas Gerais

Name of system	Location	Date (from)	Date (to)	Notes
	Belo Horizonte	30 May 1953	22 January 1969	Construction of a second system was started, in the late 1980s, but never completed, and the plans were eventually cancelled.

Pernambuco

Name of system	Location	Date (from)	Date (to)	Notes
	Recife	15 June 1960	24 September 2001

Rio de Janeiro

Name of system	Location	Date (from)	Date (to)	Notes
	Campos (dos Goytacazes)	29 June 1958	12 June 1967
	Niterói	21 November 1953	10 November 1967
	Rio de Janeiro:
	♦ Zona Norte	April 1965	April 1971 (?)
	♦ Zona Sul	3 September 1962	July 1968 (?)

Rio Grande do Sul

Name of system	Location	Date (from)	Date (to)	Notes
	Porto Alegre	7 December 1963	19 May 1969

São Paulo

Name of system	Location	Date (from)	Date (to)	Notes
	Araraquara	27 December 1959	20 November 2000
	Ribeirão Preto	24 July 1982	2 July 1999
	Rio Claro	9 May 1986	July 1993
	Santos	12 August 1963		See also Trolleybuses in Santos.
SPTrans (urban)	São Paulo	22 April 1949		See also Trolleybuses in São Paulo.
Corredor Metropolitano São Mateus - Jabaquara - EMTU, (METRA), (Next Mobilidade)	Greater São Paulo	3 December 1988		Serves neighboring towns including Diadema, São Bernardo do Campo and Santo André. See also Trolleybuses in São Paulo and São Mateus–Jabaquara Metropolitan Corridor.

See also

List of trolleybus systems, for all other countries
List of town tramway systems in Brazil
List of light-rail transit systems
List of rapid transit systems
Trolleybus usage by country

Sources

Books and periodicals

Murray, Alan. 2000. World Trolleybus Encyclopaedia (ISBN 0-904235-18-1). Reading, Berkshire, UK: Trolleybooks.
Peschkes, Robert. 1980. World Gazetteer of Tram, Trolleybus, and Rapid Transit Systems - Part One, Latin America (ISBN 1-898319-02-2). Exeter, UK: Quail Map Company.
Trolleybus Magazine (ISSN 0266-7452). National Trolleybus Association (UK). Bimonthly.

Website

Morrison, Allen (November 2007). Latin American Trolleybus Installations Retrieved on 2010-04-05.

References

Trolleybus Magazine (TM) No. 164, March–April 1989, p. 40.
TM No. 257, Sep.-Oct. 2004, p. 111.
TM No. 227, Sep.-Oct. 1999, p. 112.

External links

[REDACTED] Media related to Trolleybuses in Brazil at Wikimedia Commons

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