The attempt to create a British-style Wuppertal monorail. Or should that be Irish-style?
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The attempt to create a British-style Wuppertal monorail. Or should that be Irish-style?
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The views of the canal remind me that I really miss riverside pubs, now that I live in Australia.
Stereo is the only way
Mention should be made of the Bradford & Foster Brook, a monorail in Bradford PA that operated for a few months ca. 1880, shut down after a boiler explosion of a new locomotive they were building. Based on the Lartigue-type concept monorail operated at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia. Also the Epsom Salts monorail, a Lartigue-like monorail operated in California 1924-6 to haul Epsom salts from a mine that was internal-combustion propelled.
Kuala Lumpur has a monorail as part of its public transport network. Fun to ride on, but the vehicles have a limited capacity
6:00 what's "OFF UP"? sounds like a cockney insult.
Transitโฆ on a single rail? Madness!
Iโd love to see more about monorails around London area.
Railway companies buying up canals was not uncommon in the mid-19th century, sometimes to gain the rights of way, sometimes to shut down competition, and sometimes because the canal terminals often consisted of large areas of city centres which might have potential as stations or goods yards.
That would be a thing of intrest
So it was kind of like those concept pitches for something utterly unprofitable but cool sounding that occasionally pop up every now and then, like a commercial airliner being converted to have staterooms used as a kind of flying cruise ship.
Can we have a video on the other attempts at monorails
Nope, we love the Monorail in the video game "Driver"
Obviosly this is no monorail because the 2 guiding rails on the lower part of the A frame. The only true old monorail was in India were there was one steel rail and a guiding wheel running on an concrete path beside the rail.
Honestly, monorails are ridiculous. The only real implementation of a MONO-rail in transit IMO is the Schwebebahn in Wuppertal. One rail and one wheel for support and traction.
The Lartigue system is a TRI-rail. This system seems to at least successfully address the engineering problem of installation costs.
ALWEG type monorails (Seattle, Disney, Bombardier INNOVIA) are all really HEX-rails. Two rubber wheels on top of a beam and multiple rubber wheels top and bottom on either side for stability. SAFEGE is similar, just with the multi-wheeled electric bogie above the cabin. Overly complicated guided electric busses.
The Schwebebahn was invented to address the very limited space for transit and the sweeping curves required (over a river in a narrow valley).
The SAFEGE system was designed to get the running gear out of the elements.
ALWEG? Looks cool. The vehicles are an engineering work-around to make 1950's futurism a reality.
It's odd that if the idea for an over-the-canal network was inspired by Wuppertal that a Schwebebahn system wasn't the choice made for the implementation.
The Simpsons reference was brilliant, and as someone who rode the 1964 NY World's Fair AMF Monorail, blindingly accurate !!!
I wish I could see the nice historic London without having to deal with the rest of it, hated my visits but the history draws me
I would love to know why there are no monorails in Britain.
As you say, probably for the best.
There is (was?) a mono rail in the centre of sydney. Mostly a tourist attraction, it runs on a rail elevated above the pavement, about first floor level. The train straddles the rail, but the passenger compartments are full above the rail.
Quite a cool way to have a look around that bit of Sydney, but otherwise, not much use
Our local shipping centre in Dudley, Merry Hill built a monorail to provide a transport link from the centre itself, the retail park and a business site.
It was not a success
It opened in 1991, hardly ever ran and closed in 1996. It had so many technical problems and many a time broke down, stranding shoppers over the carparks
However to an 8 year old it was brilliant
commercial road hmmm such original name i wonder whats there xD
Nice story, lovely photography.
Hi from Green Bay. GO PACKERS!!! LOL!!! MONORAILS are quite popular in science fiction and anime. Because in the cartoon "GALAXY RANGERS" in the 1990s , they had a Super Futuristic monorail that basically playing the role of a Transcontinental rr opening the last frontier of the alien world ๐ and alien thugs were trying to remove the settlers from their houses to grab the land. Even the Galaxy Rangers had problems. And the main character of DOC who is an African-American Cyber doctor is captured and tied to the guideway, remember, not tracks!! Along with the other settlers!! As the steam powered monorail express carreens toward a large bridge that is about to be blown up by a space bomb. But what hapoens????? I ain't telling here. Lol!!! You can see for yourself of YT, at GALAXY RANGERS, the episode is called "FIRE AND IRON", PLUS+ for anime fans it has some early 1990s C.G.I. of Vector Graphics as seen on the special effects of the computer monitors. Hope you enjoy the show!!!!!! GOD BLESS THE ๐บ๐ธ ๐ ๐ โค AND PEACE ON EARTH FOR EVERYPONY, LOL!!! And, PLEASE, PRAY FOR PEACE IN UKRAINE ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ ๐ข AND ALL THE OPPRESSED AND INNOCENT VICTIMS AND CHILDREN AROUND THE WORLD ๐ ๐ โค!!!!! BUT CURSES TO THE TYRANTS AND DICTATORS AND MURDERERS OF THE LITTLE CHILDREN. PLEASE…GOD BLESS THE SOULS OF THE INNOCENT VICTIMS ๐ โจ ๐ ๐ โค!!!!! ALLELUIA!!!!! AMEN ๐ฎ๐ฑ ๐!!!!! MON. APRIL 4, 2022A.D!
Disneyland has a monorail.
Interesting video ๐
One question I would ask about monorails is what's the point ?
From what I can see, they don't serve any purpose, other than what a conventional railway can already do
Having just got back from Dubai; I discovered and travelled on a monorail their! It runs along the centre of Palm Island. It struck me as rather odd and old looking compared to the โflashโ and luxury image of Dubai. The carriages were very wide and laid out in an odd configuration. Though it seemed worth of investment as they were adding more stations to it alone its route.
The graffiti everywhere is disgusting, if caught they should have their arms cut off with rusty saw and left in the desert to be buzzard food.
The only reason so many railway companies bought canals, making an offer the shareholders could not resist, was to close them down and steal their freight traffic.
Yes please tell me all about mono-rails
I love how much of the canal you showed. You were t Kingsland Basin, where I lived for a time before coming back to the states. Oh how I miss my walks along the canal!
Off topic…but how do you tow a broken narrow boat and to ware
Having only ever ridden a monorail at Walt Disney World in Florida, I'd love to hear about efforts to make a monorail-based public transportation system.
haha, I always have to chuckle when people use i.e. in speech, because it safes you no time and just makes it funny to pronounce! ๐
Great video nontheless don't get me wrong ๐
Good one Jago ๐
Interesting video
Monorails have been far more successful as amusement rides, or as short-range tourist transportation with a novelty aspect, and that actually makes sense–they're cool-looking, and such rides are usually a simple loop or shuttle without many switches (except for transfer tracks for maintenance and such). So there is a niche, it's just not the one that advocates imagined.
The last monorail I rode was the one in Singapore that goes from the roof of the VivoCity shopping center to Sentosa Island, a land of amusement parks and other tourist attractions. It's generally crowded because it's the least expensive way over aside from walking the causeway in the tropical steam heat (come to think of it, there might be buses that are cheaper, but it's only a few bucks). As an attraction, it's somewhat overshadowed by the far more expensive cable cars overhead.
3:43 oh so your mother?
There's a recreation in listowel and it's yeah it's something
Listowel and Bally B railway was over shifting bog and sand , (no kerryman jokes) old saying in Ireland was the Further west you go the narrower the tracks get ๐ค๐ค
I suspect that another main cause of monorail failure is … the mono wheel.
In this I am referring to the need for a single double flanged wheel guided on the single rail … which inherently fails to self steer leading to much screeching and wear.
The dual rail system with conical wheels neatly overcomes this in most rail curves and straights.
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"…It didn't really do anything that a conventional railwey couldn't…".
After two hundred years of development, this phrase neatly sums-up the monorail in general.