{{Short description|Electric transport system in Tychy, Poland}} {{Infobox trolleybus system | color = | name = Tychy trolleybus system | system = | logo = | image = Solaris Trollino 12MB obsługujący linię B.jpg | caption = A Solaris Trollino 12 in Tychy, 2013 <!-- Operation --> | locale = Tychy, Poland | open = {{Start date|1982|10|1|df=y}}<ref name="murray"/><ref name="SV-1983-07"/> | close = | status = Open | routes = 8 | owner = | operator = Tyskie Linie Trolejbusowe Sp. z o.o. <!-- Infrastructure --> | el = 660 V DC | depot = | stock = <!-- Statistics --> | single_track_length = | double_track_length = | total_track_length = {{convert|40|km|mi||abbr=on}} | route_length = | pass_year = | passengers = | pass_percent = | pass_system = | mpassengers = <!-- Overview --> | map = | map_state = | website = http://www.tlt.pl/index.php TLT {{in lang|pl}} }} [[File:Jelcz 120MT 024, trolleybus line B, Tychy, 2006.jpg|thumb|right|One of the Jelcz high-floor trolleybuses that served the system before 2015, this example wearing an advertising wrap]] thumb|A Solaris Trollino 12 on line E on battery power (during a traffic diversion) [[File:Dwa trolejbusy na Dworcu PKP.jpg|thumb|Two Solaris Trollino 12MB at Tychy railway station]]

'''Trolleybuses in Tychy''' form part of the public transport service in the city of Tychy, Poland. The system opened in 1982 and is one of only three trolleybus systems still in operation in Poland. Currently, the fleet consists of 21 low-floor trolleybuses of the type Solaris Trollino 12. In the past, high-floor vehicles of the types ZIU-9, Jelcz PR110E and Jelcz 120MT were used.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tlt.pl/index.php?id=historia|title=History of trolleybuses in Tychy (''Polish'').|website=TLT Tychy|accessdate=2015-06-07|archive-date=2019-09-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190918080940/http://tlt.pl/index.php?id=historia|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Traction power is provided by two traction substations (2×800&nbsp;kW and 3×800&nbsp;kW). Overhead wiring has a cross section of 12&nbsp;mm<sup>2</sup> and it hangs 5.8 to 6.2 m above the street.

==History== The Tychy trolleybus system opened on 1 October 1982, and was the first new trolleybus system to open in Poland since 1953.<ref name="murray">{{cite book |last=Murray |first=Alan |title=World Trolleybus Encyclopaedia |date=2000 |page=71|publisher=Trolleybooks |location=Yateley, Hampshire, UK |isbn=0-904235-18-1}}</ref> The first route connected Krasickiego and Towarow, and the initial fleet consisted of 12 Russian-built ZIU-9 trolleybuses, of 20 on order.<ref name="SV-1983-07">{{cite news|title=Tychy – ein neuer Obusbetrieb in Polen|trans-title=Tychy – A new trolleybus system in Poland|work={{Interlanguage link|Stadtverkehr{{!}} Der Stadtverkehr|de|3=Stadtverkehr (Zeitschrift)}}|publisher=Verlag Werner Stock|location=Bielefeld, Germany|date=July 1983|page=267|language=de|issn=0038-9013}}</ref><ref name="tm128">''Trolleybus Magazine'' No. 128 (March 1983), pp. 45–47. National Trolleybus Association (UK). {{issn|0266-7452}}.</ref> The original paint scheme was red-and-cream. A second route, numbered 2, from Tychy railway station ("Leninowa" at that time) to Przemysłowa, had opened by 1984.<ref name="tm138">''Trolleybus Magazine'' No. 138 (November–December 1984), p. 139. National Trolleybus Association (UK).</ref> In 1985, the arrival of 12 more trolleybuses expanded the fleet to 24 vehicles, numbered 701–724.<ref name="tm151">''Trolleybus Magazine'' No. 151 (January–February 1987), p. 22.</ref> Route 3 (Lenina – Przemysłowa via Engelsa [now Ulica Jana III Sobieskiego] and Fornalskiej [now Bolesława Chrobrego]) opened in 1985,<ref name="tm145">''Trolleybus Magazine'' No. 145 (January–February 1986), p. 16.</ref> and route 4 (Leninowa–Paprocany) had opened by 1987.<ref name="tm157">''Trolleybus Magazine'' No. 157 (January–February 1988), p. 17 National Trolleybus Association (UK). {{ISSN|0266-7452}}.</ref> In 1992, routes 1 and 3 were discontinued and the designations of routes 2 and 4 were changed to A and B, respectively<ref name="tm188">''Trolleybus Magazine'' No. 188 (March–April 1993), p. 49. National Trolleybus Association (UK).</ref> – and all Tychy trolleybus routes have been designated by letters since that time. Additional services, each partially duplicating existing routes, came and went, including night-time routes designated C and D, but by at least 1999 there were four all-day routes, A through D, in operation.<ref name="tm227">''Trolleybus Magazine'' No. 227 (September–October 1999), p. 117. National Trolleybus Association (UK). {{issn|0266-7452}}.</ref>

A new trolleybus built in Poland by Jelcz joined the fleet in 1989, numbered 725,<ref name="tm178">''Trolleybus Magazine'' No. 178 (July–August 1991), p. 100. National Trolleybus Association (UK).</ref> and additional Jelcz trolleybuses were acquired subsequently. Seven Jelcz trolleybuses were acquired in 1997 from the Słupsk trolleybus system, and Tychy's last active ZIU trolleybuses were withdrawn in 1997 or 1998.<ref name="tm227"/> Most of the Jelcz vehicles were repainted in an all-yellow livery in 1998,<ref name="tm227"/> and by 2000 the entire trolleybus fleet was painted all-over yellow.<ref name="tm233">''Trolleybus Magazine'' No. 233 (September–October 2000), p. 118.</ref> A new route E opened on 2&nbsp;September 2002. It had the same termini as route B, but differed in the middle, and {{convert|1.2|km|mi|abbr=on}} of new overhead wiring was installed for it along Jana Pawła II—the first new wiring added to this system (other than at the depot) since at least the early 1990s.<ref name="tm250">''Trolleybus Magazine'' No. 250 (July–August 2003), p. 91.</ref>

The system received its first Solaris trolleybus (and first low-floor trolleybus) in 2003,<ref name="tm250"/> and additional Solaris units followed gradually. In December 2012, the first of 15 more Solaris Trollino trolleybuses was delivered, and it introduced a new livery of green and yellow, which was planned to be applied to all future new trolleybuses.<ref name="tm309">''Trolleybus Magazine'' No. 309 (May–June 2013), p. 78.</ref> A new route F was introduced in 2013 but was withdrawn after only 2–3 months after being deemed unsuccessful. However, a different route F was put into operation on 6&nbsp;May 2015.<ref name="tm348">''Trolleybus Magazine'' No. 348 (November–December 2019), pp. 228, 230. National Trolleybus Association (UK).</ref> The last Jelcz trolleybuses, the fleet's last high-floor trolleybuses, were retired in April 2015.<ref name="tm348"/> A new route G began operation in September 2019, and route E was modified to complement it. Both routes E and G had sections without overhead wires, and because the fleet's three then-newest Solaris trolleybuses (Nos. 40–42) were the only vehicles with batteries powerful enough to cover the unwired sections of those routes, those trolleybuses were initially the only ones that could be used on routes E and G.<ref name="tm348"/> Route 293 of another transport company in Tychy was taken over by the trolleybus operator on 1 January 2021 and became trolleybus route H.<ref name="tm358">''Trolleybus Magazine'' No. 358 (July–August 2021), p. 160. National Trolleybus Association (UK). {{issn|0266-7452}}.</ref>

==Lines== As of December 2025, the eight lines in operation were as follows:<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tlt.pl/index.php/trolejbusy/linie-komunikacyjne|title=Tychy trolleybus system map (''Polish'').|website=TLT Tychy|date=1 December 2025|accessdate=2025-12-24}}</ref> {| class="wikitable"http://www.tlt.pl/index.php/trolejbusy/linie-komunikacyjne !style="text-align:center"|Line !style="text-align:center"|Route |--- !style="text-align:center"|A |'''Towarowa''' - Hipermarekty - Paprocańska - Piłsudskiego - Hala Sportowa - Skałka - Osiedle "K" - Osiedle "R" - Stoczniowców 70 - Hetmańska - Harcerska - Hotelowiec - E.LECLERC - Gen. Andersa - '''Dworzec PKP''' ---- '''Dworzec PKP''' - Budowlanych - Carboautomatyka - E.LECLERC - Hotelowiec - Begonii - Harcerska - Hetmańska - Stoczniowców 70 - Osiedle "R" - Osiedle "K" - Skałka - Hale Targowe - Hala Sportowa - Piłsudskiego - Paprocańska - Hipermarkety - Towarowa - Towarowa Skrzyżowanie - Towarowa Rondo - Przemysłowa I - Przemysłowa II - Przemysłowa Hurtownie - Metalowa - '''Zajezdnia''' |--- !style="text-align:center"|B |'''Sikorskiego Wiadukt''' - Osiedle "Z1" - Osiedle "Z" – Jezioro Paprocańskie - Paprocany Pętla - Paprocany Dymarek - Osiedle "T" - Osiedle "O" - Lodowisko - Szpital Wojewódzki - Filaretów - Edukacji - Pływalnia - Stadion - Bielska - Hotelowiec - E.LECLERC - Gen. Andersa - '''Dw.PKP T-bus''' ---- '''Dworzec PKP''' - Budowlanych - Carboautomatyka - E.LECLERC - Hotelowiec - Stadion - Pływalnia - Edukacji - Filaretów - Szpital Wojewódzki - Lodowisko - Wyszyńskiego - Osiedle "O" – Osiedle "T" - Paprocany Dymarek - Paprocany Pętla - Jezioro Paprocańskie - Osiedle "Z" - Osiedle "Z1" - '''Sikorskiego Wiadukt''' |--- !style="text-align:center"|C |'''Towarowa''' - Hipermarkety - Paprocańska - Piłsudskiego - Hala Sportowa - Dmowskiego - Jana Pawła II - Żwakowska - Harcerska - Hotelowiec - E.LECLERC - Gen. Andersa - '''Dworzec PKP''' ---- '''Dworzec PKP''' - Budowlanych - Carboautomatyka - E.LECLERC - Hotelowiec - Begonii - Harcerska - Żwakowska - Jana Pawła II - Dmowskiego - Hale Targowe - Hala Sportowa - Piłsudskiego - Paprocańska - Hipermarkety - Towarowa - Towarowa Skrzyżowanie - Towarowa Rondo - Przemysłowa I - Przemysłowa II - Przemysłowa Hurtownie - Metalowa - '''Towarowa''' |--- !style="text-align:center"|D |'''Towarowa''' - Hipermarkety - Paprocańska - Osiedle "O" - Lodowisko - Wyszyńskiego - Szpital Wojewódzki - Filaretów - Edukacji - Pływalnia - Stadion - Bielska - Hotelowiec - E.LECLERC - Gen. Andersa - '''Dworzec PKP''' ---- '''Dworzec PKP''' - Budowlanych - Carboautomatyka - E.LECLERC - Hotelowiec - Stadion - Pływalnia - Edukacji - Filaretów - Szpital Wojewódzki - Lodowisko - Wyszyńskiego - Osiedle "O" - Paprocańska - Hipermarkety - Towarowa - Towarowa Skrzyżowanie - Towarowa Rondo - Przemysłowa I - Przemysłowa II - Przemysłowa Hurtownie - Metalowa - '''Zajezdnia''' |--- !style="text-align:center"|E |'''Sikorskiego Wiadukt''' - Osiedle "Z1" - Osiedle "Z" - Jezioro Paprocańskie - Paprocany Pętla - Paprocany Dymarek - Osiedle "T" - Śródmieście - Rondo Cassino - Gen. Grota-Roweckiego - Elfów - Pływalnia - Stadion - Bielska - Begonii - Harcerska - Hetmańska - Stoczniowców 70 - Osiedle "R" - Osiedle "L" - Cztery Pory Roku - Tężnia - Sikorskiego Kościół - Osiedle "W" - Paprocany Dymarek - Paprocany Pętla - Jezioro Paprocańskie - Osiedle "Z" - Osiedle "Z1" - '''Sikorskiego Wiadukt''' |- !F |'''Szpital Wojewódzki''' - Filaretów - Edukacji - Elfów - Gen. Grota-Roweckiego - Dmowskiego - Skałka - Osiedle "K" - Osiedle "R" - Stoczniowców 70 - Hetmańska - Harcerska - Hotelowiec - Stadion - Pływalnia - Edukacji - Filaretów - '''Szpital Wojewódzki''' ---- '''Szpital Wojewódzki''' - Wyszyńskiego - Lodowisko - Osiedle "O" - Piłsudskiego - Hala Sportowa - Dmowskiego - Gen. Grota-Roweckiego - Elfów - Pływalnia - Bielska - Begonii - Harcerska - Hetmańska - Stoczniowców - Osiedle "R" - Osiedle "K" - Skałka - Hale Targowe - Hala Sportowa - Piłsudskiego - Osiedle "O" - Lodowisko - Wyszyńskiego - '''Szpital Wojewódzki''' |- !style="text-align:center"|G |'''Sikorskiego Wiadukt''' - Osiedle "Z1" - Osiedle "Z" - Jezioro Paprocańskie - Paprocany Pętla - Paprocany Dymarek - Osiedle "W" - Sikorskiego Kościół - Tężnia - Osiedle "U" - Osiedle "L" - Osiedle "R" - Stoczniowców 70 - Hetmańska - Harcerska - Hotelowiec - Stadion - Pływalnia - Elfów - Gen. Grota-Roweckiego - Rondo Cassino - Śródmieście - Osiedle "O" - Osiedle "T" - Paprocany Dymarek - Paprocany Pętla - Jezioro Paprocańskie - Osiedle "Z" - Osiedle "Z1" - '''Sikorskiego Wiadukt''' |- !style="text-align:center"|H |'''Szpital Wojewódzki''' - Tęcza - Urząd Miasta - Niepodległości - Gen. Grota-Roweckiego - Dmowskiego - Brama Słońca - Osiedle "U" - Osiedle "L" - Jaśkowicka - Żwaków Borowa II - Suble Działki - Suble Chałupnicza - Hetmańska - Żwakowska - Bielska Wiadukt - Bielska Szpital - Czarnieckiego - Hotelowiec - E.LECLERC - Gen. Andersa - '''Dworzec PKP''' ---- '''Dworzec PKP''' - Budowlanych - Carboautomatyka - E.LECLERC - Begonii - Czarnieckiego - Bielska Szpital - Bielska Wiadukt - Żwakowska - Hetmańska - Suble Chałupnicza - Suble Działki - Żwaków Borowa II - Żwaków Myśliwska - Żwaków Nowa - Żwaków św. Elżbiety - Żwaków Cmentarz - Żwaków Rondo - Żwaków Legionów - Osiedle "L" - Cztery Pory Roku - Osiedle "U" - Brama Słońca - Dmowskiego - Gen. Grota-Roweckiego - Niepodległości - Urząd Miasta - Tęcza - '''Szpital Wojewódzki''' |}

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== {{Commons category|Trolleybuses in Tychy}} * [http://www.tlt.pl/pliki/schemat.pdf Tychy trolleybus system map] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201024010008/http://www.tlt.pl/pliki/schemat.pdf |date=2020-10-24 }} * {{Urban Electric Transit | id = 256 | title = Tychy | trolleybus = yes}} * {{Trolleymotion | id = 179 | title = Trolleybus city: Tychy }} * [http://www.tlt.pl Official Website of the Operator TLT (Polish)] * [https://archive.today/20121221140936/http://transport.asi.pwr.wroc.pl/autobusy.php?s=24&nr=274 Gallery on transport.asi.pwr.wroc.pl (Polish)] {{Trolleybus systems in Poland}}

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