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Schwebebahn to reopen mid-2019

On: 29th December 2018

Some of you will know of the problems facing the famous suspension railway in Wuppertal – perhaps because I’ve mentioned it or you may have seen reports on You Tube or in the German media about it. The latest is the railway wont be open for another six months orRead More →

A Schwebebahn Anniversary

On: 5th December 2018

On this very day, 5th December, a hundred and twenty years ago the very first test trains ran on the world’s one and only true monorail system. This was the Schwebebahn suspension railway through the twin cities of Elberfeld and Barmen in the Ruhr area of Germany. The two citiesRead More →

Dangerous wheelchair ramps on TfL: Liverpool Street uses ramps that move considerably when they are used. Notice how the wheels on the ramp, as this You Tube video shows, almost fall in the gap between platform and train: Just a half inch or so and the whole thing could collapse! The ramp is also extremely steep.

Watch video & see how the ramp’s support wheels slip into the gap!

Schwebebahn: The famous Wuppertal monorail is expected to recommence services 1st August 2019. Wuppertal Stadwerke has so far lost 2.3 million Euros revenue due to the enforced closure. A number of recent tweets show the Generation 15 trains on test runs whilst seven of those that have stood in Oberbarmen depot since the disaster have now been moved to Vohwinkel for maintenance work.

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