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[dezelina.livejournal.com]

Hey all,

This is a real random and probably a stupid question...lol but  I already know the words троллейбус and трамвай; however, what is the difference?  

In my city we use the words interchangeably...no difference in the type of vehicle we are talking about.  I know that in Russia there is a difference, and I am reading an article about Moscow city planning that keeps mentioning both separately.  Any words of wisdom for me? lol

My thanks to all of you in this community who always help me out!

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[spinysun.livejournal.com]

Maybe this will help:
This is трамвай.

it's an old one, but still, you can see it is using rails, just as a little urban train.

Троллейбус:

Has wheels with tyres and uses the same way as usual traffic: cars and buses.

[cassandraclue.livejournal.com]

i believe the difference is that трамбай has a track on the ground, whereas the троллейбус doesn't. i also always confuse them for some reason. :)

[haallan.livejournal.com]

all is simple: though both vehicles are running with electricity, трамвай is going on tracks, and троллейбус - on wheels.

sorry for bad English, it's too late and I am too tired

About trolleybuses and trams.

[irinafreckles.livejournal.com]

Hi!
These both transports are common in a way of using overhead electrical powercables.
The difference is:
троллейбус ( a trolleybus) drives on the wheels like any bus, but трамвай (a tram) needs rails.
Regards!

Re: About trolleybuses and trams.

[icamel.livejournal.com]

These both transports are common in a way of using overhead electrical powercables.

Not quite. Троллейбус has two overhead powercables, while трамвай has single one, because it use one of the rails as a conductive track.

Re: About trolleybuses and trams.

[miconazole.livejournal.com]

But then if you step on both rails at once won't you get electrocuted? :x

Re: About trolleybuses and trams.

[icamel.livejournal.com]

One of the rails.

You will be electrocuted if while standing on that rail you will grab the powercable.

[alek-morse.livejournal.com]

Here are the tram and the trolleybus in Yekaterinburg (Ural, Russia)

(http://pics.livejournal.com/alek_morse/pic/0005a6fr/)


(http://pics.livejournal.com/alek_morse/pic/0005b13z/)

[constpd.livejournal.com]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tram

[vovse-ne.livejournal.com]

You are no tram, take a swerve - Не трамвай, объедет. :)

[russian-bob.livejournal.com]

You've probably seen trolleys in Philly? They have one trolley pole to connect to an electrical source, they run on steel tracks using them also as second contact for electricity.

Trolleybus, also called trackless trolley, has two trolley poles with two parallel wires for electricity, and they run on tires as regular buses. Off course, they can not move far away from the wires, but they can change lines, get closer to the curb, etc.

Trams ran om steel tracks, but the do not have trolley, instead they use arch that is pushed up to the wire, it moves side to side when tram turns but always touches the wire.

There are also subway trains that use tracks to get connections to both poles of electrical source. So when you fall to subway tracks try do not touch both tracks in the same time. :)

[pzrk.livejournal.com]

Троллейбус runs on tires, трамвай needs rails.

[error-304.livejournal.com]

Wow wow wow, Yekaterinburg, Ural. I'm not from Yekaterinburg, but from Chelyabinsk. It's also Ural, but 300 kilometres away.*)