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The Wuppertal monorail follows the Wupper Valley where a conventional railway is quite impractical. The suspended monorail, like the Palmer monorail appears a potentially superior solution over rough and mountainous terrain, but since the majority of the track is over more favourable territory, it only rarely offers an overall better solution.
A monorail is a railway in which the track consists of a single rail or beam. Colloquially, the term "monorail" is often used to describe any form of elevated rail or people mover. [1] More accurately, the term refers to the style of track. [note 1] Monorail systems are most frequently implemented in large cities, airports, and theme parks.
A Chongqing Rail Transit monorail train. Line 3 is the world's longest and busiest monorail line. A monorail is a railway system in which the track consists of a single elevated rail, beam or track with the trains either supported or suspended. The term is also used to describe the beam of the system, or the vehicles traveling on such a beam or ...
The monorail is associated with the names Louis Brennan, August Scherl and Pyotr Shilovsky, who each built full-scale working prototypes during the early part of the twentieth century. A version was developed by Ernest F. Swinney, Harry Ferreira and Louis E. Swinney in the US in 1962. The gyro monorail was never developed beyond the prototype ...
The Lartigue Monorail system was developed by the French engineer Charles Lartigue (1834–1907). He further developed a horse drawn monorail system, which had been invented by Henry Robinson Palmer in 1821. [1] Lartigue had seen camels in Algeria carrying heavy loads balanced in panniers on their backs. This inspired him to design a new type ...
Monorail Peach on October 22, 2011, outside Disney's Polynesian Resort. For a while, Monorail Coral featured TRON artwork from Disney's Tron: Legacy. Monorail Black traveling inside Epcot on December 14, 2019. Each train is identified by a colored stripe, and given a name according to that color. [12] The complete list of colors used is below:
The Tokyo Monorail began accepting the contactless smart card Suica on 21 April 2002. [8]: 260 It began issuing its own "Monorail Suica" cards in 2009. [37] The monorail also accepts the regional Pasmo card and the Japan Rail Pass. [38] [39] Fares may be purchased from ticket vending machines at any monorail station. [40]
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