From that moment on, not only was the railway a symbol of the city, but also “Dives” the small elephant remembered in a mural of the city. The animal, frightened and confused by the noises, smashed the window and ended up in the river making a dive of about 10 meters. In 1950, in fact, a circus, to advertise, brought a baby elephant on board the Wuppertal Schwebebahn. The most particular? When a baby elephant jumped off the train and came out unscathed. The Wuppertal Schwebebahn is the oldest elevated railway and with its 120 years of life it has many stories to tell. This device, very revolutionary at the time, allows the railway to move 13 meters (14 yards) overhead and at an average speed of 27 km/ h (about 16 Mph). The train is supported by a steel supporting frame and, to prevent oscillations, there is a safety bar on the frame. It travels on a single rail, to which the wagons are attached. The suspension railroad was designed by Eugen Langen and built in 1901. # Suspended 13 meters (14 yards) high al contrario In the past 120 years it has transported more than 1.5 billion people. It is called Wuppertal Schwebebahn and is a monument of industrial history that is unique in the world, as well as the most important means of transport in the city. The line follows the River Wupper for 13.3 km (8.5 Miles) and 20 stops. It is located in Germany, precisely in Wuppertal, near Dusseldorf, and every day it serves its inhabitants as if it were a subway. One might think that this is an avant-garde, ultra-modern engineering work, perhaps the turning point of the railway system: no longer trains that travel by land on the rails, but that move by air. The SUSPENSION RAILWAY # The train that has hung on the rails for 120 years Could it have been a mistake or is it perhaps an art installation? Neither, but one thing is certain: this railway is unique. Instead of being above the tracks, the train is underneath. It is single tracked with several passing stations, but the unusual thing about this monorail is that instead of balancing on a central rail, it is suspended (mostly above suburban streets) from an elevated track (similar to the Wuppertal Suspension Railway).It looks like the work of a drunkard or a bizarre inventor. The Shonan Monorail runs along a 6.6km route between Ofuna and Enoshima. I made my way through to the JR Platforms, and caught a local train for the short journey to Ofuna.Īt Ofuna, I left the JR train and headed for the monorail station, which is on the second floor of a shopping centre built on top of the JR station. After the spectacle of trains traversing a suburban street, the short journey on reserved track was unremarkable and we terminated at a very ordinary platform at Kamakura. I watched the morning traffic dodge about half a dozen trains before I boarded a Kamakura bound train at Koshigoe. Between Enoshima and Koshigoe stations, the Enoshima Electric Railway turns into the Main Street of the town and for about 450 metres, the train pretends it is a tram the full sized trains rumble slowly down the narrow shopping street. The little 3 car trains passed me every so often on the single track line, and after about 40 minutes I arrived at Enoshima station. ![]() I felt like an early morning walk, so I walked beside the Enoshima Electric Railway tracks towards Enoshima. ![]() Not a remarkable city in its own right, Fujisawa is in the Shonan region, which has a couple of interesting local rail services a street railway and a monorail. I awoke in the Japanese city of Fujisawa, about 40 km south west of Tokyo.
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