Germany's Flying Train
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ส.ค. 2020
- The Wuppertal Suspension Railway in Germany, the oldest electric elevated railway with hanging cars, first opened in 1901, but before it opened the Wuppertal area had looked at a similar system.
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Amazing story, thank you :)
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i guess I am kind of off topic but does anybody know of a good website to stream newly released series online?
Schöne Grüße aus Wuppertal
Incredible! Had never heard of this.
I was born here in Wuppertal and still live near Robert-Daum-Platz today. When I was a child, I always thought the "Schwebebahn" is not uniqe :D Feel free to ask any questions about Wuppertal or the Schwebebahn ;)
@@W1SS4Mxx hahah ich bin nicht in Wuppertal geboren lebe aber schon seit meiner Kindheit dort:)dachte immer das es nicht so besonders sei haha
@@benbliond6269 ja auf jeden :D
I Visited it last year ! Germany , the best country ever ! Love you
Thanks, from Germany/Wuppertal
Wir lieben Deutschland!
After seeing the first few seconds, I allready knew It was the Wuppertal Schwebebahn. Still in operatio but the new cars lack the charm of the old cars. BTW, another great and informative video about a hidden gem in German transport history.
I recognised it from the thumbnail !
How nice to see the Schwebebahn featured here! It is a great solution to the problem of transport along a narrow valley, which would probably never be implemented nowadays. It does have its problems though. At the moment it's only working at weekends because of design errors on the roller wheels of the new wagons. And a couple of years ago a bit of the electrically conducting rail fell off and landed on the (luckily unoccupied) passenger seat of a cabriolet which was passing underneath. I'd recommend anyone coming to Wuppertal to travel the length of the Schwebebahn. The new wagons have panorama windows at the back.
Great video. We were lucky enough to ride on the Schwebebahn in 7/2015. You get a fantastic view of the old Bayer factory too.
As ever, I learned many things from your video! Thanks Big Car.
Wuppertal did not exist at 1901, the time, the "Schwebebahn" was build. There were only villages like Elberfeld or Barmen at that time, as you can see in the colorized movie of 1902 - the ride did go from Vohwinkel to Elberfeld, a rich city at that time. Wuppertal was founded in 1930.
A richt city at the time, still to witness at several places. But I was in Wuppertal last year. My friend there told me, it is a place with enormous social problems now, she is planning to leave to raise a family somewhere else.
@@luxembourger I myself removed from there. The colorized movie from 1902 shows the world of my grandfather, born 1877, and that is a sensation to me!
Not "villages" but rather big cities, and they already were so intertwined that they basically functioned as one bigger city, which was reinforced even more by the suspension railway.
Thank you for this Video. I live in Wuppertal and really enjoyed this Video.
Greetings Form Germany/Wuppertal
Glad you enjoyed it!
I HAVE to send this to a friend who lives in... Wuppertal!
Thank you for your informative videos.
Thanks for the upload man...I was born in Wuppertal and I used the Schwebebahn many years to get to work
Thoroughly enjoyed your video of the Wuppertal schwebebahn. I rode on it in 2017 as part of a tour of (mostly) eastern Germany's narrow-gauge railways. Fascinating!
Good work. Thanks for all the research. I just watched both videos in the past few days.
Ein tolles Video. Wunderbar, dass Du noch Bilder aus der alten Zeit hast. 😊👍
Daumen hoch und herzliche Grüße von Freya aus Wuppertal. 😊👍💜
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Thank you. I never knew such a thing existed. Well done
Glad you liked it Robert!
I once had a great ride to the zoo on this. No elephants on board for the return journey though, I think they'd heard a few rumours.
It is now forbidden to transport elephants with the Schwebebehn. Lions and Rhinos are still all right, I suppose.
Poor lil Tuffi.
@@LaserGadgets Tuffi survived her unscheduled descent from the train, thanks to being over the river. A crazy idea though, and the people involved were heavily fined.
I suspect ... the fare isn't exactly peanuts .. too 🐒
Top video! Thanks.
I was watching another train video and saw this. Glad to see a video dedicated to it. well done.
Thanks. We had a family friend when I was a kid and they came from Wuppertal. I had heard of it and they had many slides of the line and cars, up to the 1970s.
Thanks a lot for this nice video. I am born in this town, and sometimes I am getting sentimental, as I miss this train. Use to take a ride, every time I visit my hometown.
I love all these transport but not quite car, videos.
Always well presented and researched.
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Thanks Stuart!
Wonderful! And you have the early film running at a proper speed, unlike the MoMA clip. Bravo!
A very nice video, liked it !
Really good. Impressive archive footage. We could do with something like this in Bristol. We have a river and a canal running through the city.
Really an interesting watch- thank you- would like to have been a fly on the wall when they had the conversation about putting an Elephant in a tram car.
Very interesting and well presented, thanks.
Glad you liked it
Thank you for this nicely done video on the Wuppertal Schwebebahn! I recognized it instantly since I live in the same area. By the way, there is a similar flying train in the Japanese city of Chiba.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I love this. If I am ever visiting the area I must ride the kaiserwagen. As attractions go this is on bar with the best of them.
You have to book it far ub advance.
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Came every 5 minutes when i lived there, great way to get through town.
Been there couple of Times ... Superb city and the train is fun to ride
this is just fascinating. i am in awe
Your video’s are very addicting, keep it up
Glad you like them!
Super awesome!
Dankeschön ❤️
And it hay to stop service for half a year in 2019, due to some brake malfunction, and now it stopped service again for 1 year because the structure of the rails and the wheels of the trains are broken.
Also the new trains can only go 30km/h instead of planned 60km/h and it's much louder than it should have been.
The wheels of the new trains destroyed the rails and now its going to court.
Thank you for this, I cannot believe I had never heard of this before. Although more conventional it reminds me of expo67 m’unirait when entering
Sorry, bad connection... I was writing about the incredible sense of awe when expo67 minirail entered the us pavilion by Buckminster Fuller. Your footage gave me the same exact feeling.
Unfortunately, the Schwebebahn is now out of order again, at least on workdays. Only at the weekends, everyone can use it, as there are new wheels tested, and there are some issues with the bogies. There are some further issues to be sorted out until September 2021. Thanks for the Video of this iconic thing of technology!
Thanks for the update!
Not sure if already mentioned but watched footage on here or on the NHK WORLD tv channel showing a modern design and journey on a system in japan looked very interesting
I rode tram that in 2003. I had no idea how old it was. It’s a treasure.
It has a commuter station at the Bayer factory.
Fascinating, and what a brilliant invention, it must be a lot cheaper to build and maintain than traditional railways?
Ha ha! It is constantly breaking!
I like the british Monometro elevated train system ! Very beautiful ! Totally inspired from the german system.
Reminds me of the proposed George Bennie ‘Railplane’ system that was proposed in Glasgow in the 1930s. The front engine was powered by electricity and had an open propeller at the front. The carriage body was streamlined similar to an aeroplane. He proposed that the system could travel at a speed up to 120 miles per hour. Bennie started to build his system outside Glasgow (at Milngavie) however, he could not get the investment that was required and eventually the system was scrapped.
Amazing - I thought this was long gone!
It will never go! The Schwebebahn is the lifeline of this city of 350,000 inhabitants. It cannot be replaced by any other means of transport, also because of the city's location in a deep valley.
Man I love suspended monorails/trains
Apart from enjoying your videos so much, I am delighted to listen to your British accent. A real pleasure!!
Thanks! Mrs. Big Car likes it as well.
@@LittleCar Ha Ha... Good to know! Greetings from Argentina!
Nice one.
I was born in Wuppertal and also live here.
I have to say that you have put together excellent information and that they are all true.
When you told the story about "Tuffie" the elephant I was amazed because not many people know them. The photo where you can see the elephant jumping out is not real, it was only made for illustration purposes.
I always highly recommend to go to Wuppertal if friends come and visit. There's also a similar version of this at the Düsseldorf Airport. Completely automatic
There's a third in Germany that links university campi (campuses) somewhere too ! I think the airport one has two legs that support a 2-way monorail and the university one just has one leg - with one monorail one side of the leg and the other direction the other side.
@pmailkeey That third one is in Dortmund btw
@@Minonos Cheers ;) Germany's near enough for me to track it down again if I ever need to :)
Can't wait to ride down to the theater, watch a movie, walk to the city have a cocktail and a burger....goddamn.
Sorry the dream is over before it begins, Wuppertal no longer looks like it. everything is destroyed in World War II ...
@@michel6587 Yeah, we dont live in ruins here....you can still tell what city it is.
Well made.
Thank you not seen this b4 (:
Wow all my favorite TH-camr made a video about this.....I hope someday to visit this place.
I'm glad that I got to ride it in 2009. As it's used as a public transport system tickets aren't expensive, a day ticket costs about 10 euro's.
Langen also built the cable-operated Dresdner Schwebebahn which survived WWII bombing and can still be ridden today.
Thank you for this interesting video. If you're interested in alternative trains, you can have a look at France's Aérotrain. It was an experiment concerning a wheel-less train !
Thanks Francois. I'll take a look!
@@LittleCar Here is a first site, to give you an idea : aerotrain.fr/?lang=en
@@TechnoBoomer If you have ever seen Francois Truffaut's film Fahrenheit 451, you will have seen an early French experimental Schwebebahn. Sadly it no longer exists.
Wuhu my Hometown
I took a ride on it in 1985. It is unusual experience. Mco
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It's my hometown:)
Great video! For a more visitor-centric video, check out Tim Traveler’s post from a few years ago
The elephant was heard yelling, "Geronimo!!"
I worked around Wuppertal and Dusseldorf and even dated a girl, who went to University in Wuppertal for an extended period, back in 1990. I can't remember this elevated railway? It's the rype of thing, which I would have been fascinated with. I tend not to notice things visionally, so someone needs to point them out to me, or maybe I've lost my memory of it? Of course, November of 1989 was when the Berlin Wall came down, so there was a lot going on in Germany in he Spring and Summer of 1990 that may have distracted me.
I rode on this in 2008. Interesting but an eyesore.
If only we had a suspended railway like this here in London; it would be so much cheaper to build and maintain than the light rail used on the DLR and thus could easily replace all the bus services in Central London
Had similar thoughts about Brum. Hang the railway off the sides of buildings - combined transport & tourist attraction. Either that or a log flume !
@@millomweb and it would be great for commuters too thats if we put buildings above the roads and suspend the tracks off that
WOW! I had no idea such a thing existed. Seems very dangerous though. Thank you balding English man!
That's OK P!nk fan!
A lot of horse and cart work there wow
Fun fact - that unlucky elephant had the name Tuffi. Still today a local dairy company is named after her.
Best choc milk!
I was born 1999 and my aunt used the Schwebebahn that day. But not the one which fell
Now I understand why Neill felt sorry for the Elephant
Im sayin Hello from Wuppertal :D
Hello!
There’s one little mistake: the new car generation came by end of 2014, not 2011. But still an awesome video anyway. 👏
Thanks for the correction.
2:31 That's the Cologne cathedral in the background, so it's rather unlikely to be a photograph from Wuppertal.
Yes, I realised that when I put it in. It’s from an earlier test system.
@@LittleCar I've been up the cathedral - doesn't mean to say I'd recognise it ! Although the track doesn't look like the Wuppertal one !
My first 'proper job' was weaving clothing labels for a company called Brakel Labels. The owner's surname was BRAbender and the comp based in KELbrook, Lancs. Herr Brabender was from Wuppertal.
@@millomweb I recognized it instantly because well, i can see it from my window.
@@XmarkedSpot That makes a difference ! Pretty good binoculars you have there in Wuppertal ;)
The original test was carried out in Cologne Deutz. If you search you can find a photo of a very early prototype using a hanging bicycle.
Unfortunately due to excessive wear of the newest car generation the line is basicaly shut down for rework and a Bus service is running
The trains were changed in 2016
Wow, imagine what it must've been like witnessing the track structure being erected. So interesting. I'm glad that acts of animal cruelty such as putting an elephant in a train carriage aren't tolerated today in western Europe. The distressed it would have suffered for human amusement. It's as immature as a 2 year old putting a hamster in a washing machine to see what happens.
Scwebebahn in wuppertal
My attempt at spelling without looking it up
750V DC auf 800V DC , 50Km/h auf max.75Km/h, normal 70Km/h.
Can we please restore this city to former glory?
Well, if you find some rich people to pay for this :D The city itself is bankrupt and can barely keep its streets in good condition.
"Former glory"? You mean the fake AI shit with the fake colors?
@@Kalumbatsch You know, what I mean. The whole city looked way nicer than today.
Deutsche Ingenieurkunst Intensives
With an electric train, why did they need to turn the train around at the ends? Just put it in reverse.
Ther is not only one train on the rails. Imagine just reversing a normal train on the rails. Would be quite catastrophic...
@@ILucaII There are various ways to have trains pass by each other even on a single rail without any issues. But with the cars being this short, simply making it a single rail loop does seem to be the easiest way. That the train faces the other direction after leaving the end stations might really be just a side effect from this system instead of a goal.
Yora but there are over 30 cars on this rail. Do you really think it’s easier to manage them on one rail than just have a loop.
No offense to the channel owner but the German half of me really thinks this needed a narrator with a German accent.
Did you know that a flying train is German slang for going number 2? The more you know, eh ?
It's so ugly now.
Impressively ugly, but long may it reign.
Das Bild der Schwebebahn bei Minute 1:51 ist ein Bild von mir und wurde, und wird hier ohne Erlaubnis verwendet.
Bitte setzen sie sich mit mir in Verbindung.
Brilliant but inconceivably inefficient, expensive, wasteful ugly and potentially a nightmare to maintain like an obscene Jules Berne or H G Wells fictional invention.
Don't you mean Jules Verne? Anyhow, I like how it can traverse water ways.
No, sorry the construction is highly efficient and is used by 80000 per day. It costs much less than a subway. And everyone, who is born there, loves it and never wants to miss the beautiful construction over the river. But I agree, there are Problems with the new build cars, it is always a problem, if you use a system wich is unique in the world. And at least, it is a very safe system. Only one accident, with 5 dead people, in 120 Years.