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*** FILMED IN 2019 ***. Suspended monorails are very rare: there are only 8 working systems on the planet. So how have Germany got four of them? Is Germany the future? I went to Düsseldorf to investigate...
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FURTHER RESEARCH
https://www.railway-technology.com/projects/h-bahn/
https://www.monorails.org/tMspages/SkyTrain.html
Great little vid on the Skytrain by Calling All Stations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mf2TaIXybUs
Archive footage of the Bennie Railplane from Pathé: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvSmwMqtylA
IMAGE CREDITS
SAFEGE Test Track by Jean-Henri Manara - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JHM-1963_-_Voie_du_SAFEGE_exp%C3%A9rimental,_pr%C3%A8s_de_Gien.jpg
Dresden Bergbahn by Norbert Aepli - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dresden_Bergbahn_129.JPG
Bennie Railplane blue plaque by Richard Sutcliffe - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blue_Plaque_commemorating_George_Bennie_(geograph_5640132).jpg
Closeup of Wuppertal wheels by Matthias Böhm - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Antriebssatz_einer_aktuellen_Schwebebahn_Projekt_Erste_neue_Schwebebahn_1.jpg
Higashiyama Park Monorail in Nagoya by 円周率3パーセント (Enshuritsu 3 percent) - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Higashiyama_Park_Monorail_20170617.jpg
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