suspension railway

He started the Wuppertal monorail, a suspension railway system, in 1894.

It was basically a low single-rail suspension railway on which the carriages were drawn by horses.

Regardless, the Suspension Bridge's success made it a model for suspension railway bridges.

In 2012, the Wuppertal Suspension Railway was closed for significant periods to upgrade the line.

The Wuppertal Suspension Railway nowadays carries up to 82,000 passengers a day through the city.

Schwebebahn is German for suspension railway and may refer to the following examples in Germany:

March 1 - First section of Wuppertal Schwebebahn suspension railway opens to the public.

The Memphis Suspension Railway opened in 1982.

The railway may be standard gauge, narrow gauge, light rail, monorail or a suspension railway.

H-Bahn suspension railways were built in Dortmund and Düsseldorf airport, 1975.

In the 1970s Krauss Maffei was involved in the development of the Transrapid suspension railway.

An aerial railway where the vehicles are suspended from a fixed track (as opposed to a cable) is known as a suspension railway.

Although the Suspension Bridge proved that the suspension system could be safely used to carry railroads, no more suspension railway bridges were built.

On its course of about 113 km, the Wupper passes through the city of Wuppertal where the suspension railway runs for 10 kilometres above the river.

Despite its unusual suspended format, the Dresden Suspension Railway is operated as a conventional funicular railway.

The bridge builder then said in derision of Roebling's suspension railway, "If your bridge succeeds, mine is a magnificent blunder."

The successful crossings of these and later trains made Roebling's Suspension Bridge the first working suspension railway bridge in history.

The Schwebebahn Dresden is the oldest suspension railway in the world and connects the lower and upper parts of Loschwitz.

Dresden Suspension Railway page on the Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe website (in German)

Construction on the actual Wuppertal Suspension Railway began in 1898, overseen by the government's master builder, Wilhelm Feldmann.

Wuppertal is known for its steep slopes, its woods and parks, and its suspension railway, the Wuppertal Schwebebahn.

In the suspension railway of Wuppertal, a group of criminals blackmail Yoko and Ingrid into yielding the key part of the weapon to them.

Seventeen years later, the British journal Engineering called for a suspension railway to bridge the Straits of Messina and also referred to Roebling's bridge.

Urban rail transit consists of trams, light rail, rapid transit, people movers, commuter rail, monorail suspension railways and funiculars.

It is accessible by the Memphis Suspension Railway (a monorail), by foot (via a footbridge located on top of the monorail), by ferry, or automobile.