Showing posts with label monorail. Show all posts
Showing posts with label monorail. Show all posts
Saturday, September 05, 2026

Saturday Film Club: Severn Crossing Monorail

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An unexpected monorail - that breaks down! Fascinating. 
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Saturday, June 20, 2026

Saturday Film Club: Merry Hill Monorail remembered

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Another excellent video from Transport Matters - and another monorail I missed out on riding. 
Saturday, May 30, 2026

Saturday Film Club: This is Japan's UNIQUE Monorail Built By a Hospital!

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This is a terrible video. I recommend skipping the first minute and a half, but the subject is interesting, a monorail in the grounds of a h...
Saturday, May 09, 2026

Saturday Film Club: How A Small Irish Town Built The World's First Commercial Monorail

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I've never fancied visiting Ireland, that's what being a child in the 1970s does for you. Except for here. Maybe, as I've ridden...
Tuesday, October 28, 2025

HO Schwebebahn

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    This is the model I was always going to buy. Not cheap at 59 Euros for a static item, but having spent the money to go and see the real ...
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Wednesday, October 22, 2025

Schwebebahn haul

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  Look, I have wanted to visit the Wuppertal monorail for many, many years. There were going to be some souvenirs purchased. Ahead of the tr...
Tuesday, October 21, 2025

Schwebebahn (The Dingle-Dangle)

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This is the face of a very happy man. Riding the "dingle-dangle" in Wuppertal. I've wanted to visit this unusual line for more...
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Saturday, August 23, 2025

Saturday Film Club: End of the Line for Britain's Hovertrain (RTV 31)

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Sad news, but an interesting story. 
Saturday, May 31, 2025

Saturday Film Club:

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This is what YouTube should be for*. Interesting long-form videos on subjects that appeal to me. This time, the NTM digs some proper monorai...
Saturday, May 24, 2025

Saturday Fim Club: A double-sided monorail

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What a shame this never came into fruition - a great ride, and potentially, an interesting model too.
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Saturday, July 27, 2024

Saturday Film Club: Dortmund university monorail

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Why does a univeristy need a monorail? Who cares, it's cool!
Friday, October 06, 2023

Monorails in Magazines 1918-1971 by Paul Langan

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Monorails have been a technology that is coming soon for at least a century.  Paul Langan has retyped 20 articles from old science magazines...
Saturday, July 18, 2020

Saturday Film Club: Düsseldorf Flughafen SkyTrain

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   I want to go to Düsseldorf and have a go on this. That is all. I mean I'd like to go by train because I don't like flying, but ap...
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Saturday, April 04, 2020

Lego Wuppertal

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Yes, I know it's another Lego post, but how amazing is this Wuppertal monorail? ] OK, it's a bit slow, but fascinating. Wel...
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Friday, February 21, 2020

E-R Models Monorail

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Bargain of Doncaster show for me was this E-R Models HO scale monorail . The 39cm long train comes with an oval of track plus the sup...
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Saturday, December 22, 2018

Saturday Film Club: The Butlins Monorail

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It's the future! No it isn't, but that doesn't mean this isn't lovely film showing the Butlins monorail being built ...
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Saturday, April 21, 2018

Saturday Film Club: Lartigue Monorail

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I've never had any interest in visiting Ireland, apart from one thing. I'd like to see the Listowel monorail reconstruction. For...
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Saturday, December 23, 2017

Saturday Film Club: The Merry Hill monorail

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Christmas is all about hanging around shopping centres it appears, and the biggest one locally(ish) is Merry Hill . To be honest, it's n...
Thursday, July 27, 2017

Monorail toy

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Pete sent me the above photo last week:  Knowing you liking for monorails (amongst the myriad of other things) I finally dug out one ...
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Saturday, January 28, 2017

Saturday Film Club: Sydney Monorail

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When I visited Sydney a couple of years ago, I was gutted to discover that the city had enjoyed a monorail service, but this had all fin...
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