Lithuanian Trolleybuses- Vilnius & Kaunas

The capital city of Lithuania is Vilnius which is situated in the southeast of the country and part of the three Baltic States, the others being Estonia and Latvia. Between 1893 and 1916 Vilnius had a narrow-gauge horse tramway. Electric traction was introduced in Vilnius in 1956 when the trolleybus system was opened. There is an extensive network covering the entire city but not serving the streets in the old town. In 2013 the network was restructured, reducing a number of lines. At the time of the visit of the independent transport videos cameras, in May 2017, the trolleybus fleet consisted of over 230 Škoda 14Tr trolleybuses built between 1982 and 1997, some being acquired from Czech cities, plus a smaller number of Škoda 15Tr and 14TrM trolleybuses. There are also some 45 low-floor Solaris T15AC three-axle trolleybuses that date from 2004/6 and two MAZ 203T Amber Vilnis 12AC trolleybuses manufactured in Lithuania in 2012, of which number 1719 appears in this programme.