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@@abwasserpumpe I was surprised to learn that Wuppertal has 360,000 inhabitants, way more than I had expected. The closest we will get to a flagship project like the Schwebebahn in Germany will probably be the cable car Leipzig has been debating forever.
Madison, Wisconsin, USA is constrained geographically, but by lakes, not a steep valley. Besides that general US antagonism towards mass transit, I could see an elevated structure through town meeting stiff resistance. An elevated structure is bound to block views of the lakes and change the landscape. We have several lightly used freight railroad corridors that could be converted to passenger rail if desired, and the limestone bedrock in the area is easier to tunnel if we wanted to go that far.
No. How would that work, if our busses (or trains) don't to begin with? XD Okay, seriously though, my little home village is too small to be able to fund this. And our Municipality (Verbandsgemeinde) would also probably never be able to fund it!
Honestly,. it wouldn't even work in Wuppertal today. A project like that would die in between Nimbys and planning requirements during the paper stage. We Germans as a whole have lost the ability to build great engineering projects because the main motivations for most people are "not getting blamed for anything that might go wrong" and "don't get used to anything new, that's too hard of a requirement".
I love the schwebebahn and especially as it's wheelchair accessible. Over 100 years old and up above a river yet I had no trouble at all using the system. Other transit systems take note!
I’ve always said we need this here as an option in Bendigo in Australia, our land is riddled with mineshafts that make construction of an underground rail pretty much impossible, our roads are overcrowded and we can’t really fit trams in like we used to have, and our city is growing exponentially and needs new transit options, yet raised metro rail trains would be overkill. Something like this would be able to adapt to our unique issues and work around our poor road and traffic conditions. Our history matches very closely to the situations that this rail solved, and it would actually fit quite well with our city architecture, especially if we mirrored the Wuppertal systems style.
I lived in Wuppertal for 5 month to do an internship at a company and used the Schwebebahn every now and again. I lived at walking distance from the office so i did not need any form of public transport, so i just rode the schwebebahn for fun. Just imagine that: that your city's public transit system is so cool that people actually take it for fun! In many cities public transit is so bad people won't use it even if they get paid. In Wuppertal that public transit is so great that it even attracts turist to ride it just for fun.
@@XEinstein I travelled to Wuppertal for the day specifically to ride the Schwebebahn with my friends. They both travelled from Berlin and I travelled from Scotland! We took trains there, rode the train, bought a model train and took the train home.
I'm from the U.S., and really love European rail systems, so I had to go to Wuppertal! I rode it for an hour, and absolutely loved it. Thanks for the great video!
in 2014 the Deutsche Bahn gave away free rides for rebate card holders on days when German athletes won a gold medal in the winter olympics. When the day came I went on a full day trip from Berlin to Wuppertal mainly to ride the Schwebebahn =)
@@MindTheMap no, distance to ground varies on its rather short climb up a steep hill, crossing two small roads at a safe height. Its actual a funicular just using the Langen rail suspension design because the roads couldnt be crossed with a funiclar on common rails at such a steep angle.
I'm from Wuppertal and this was a great video. I'm confused about how becoming a driver only takes 20 hours? My neighbour in Wuppertal was a driver and I remember that he had to study for several months in order to be certified. He also had to work as a bus driver for several years in order to qualify. I'm not sure if nowadays you can go directly to the Schwebebahn or if you still have to start as a bus driver, but the 20 hours claim seems pretty sus to me, even if we assume that the technology is more sophisticated nowadays than it was back in the early 2000s.
Becomming a certified public transport bus/tram/metro driver is not an easy study. Its not just the driverslicense but also aditional studies like first aid, special training (f.e. standing passengers) psychologic and background checks etc.etc After all that 20 hours of aditional training to allow the driver to drive a hanging bus/tram/metro on the Schwebebahn makes perfect sense.
@ Yes, I‘m aware. He had to study about the history of the Schwebebahn and all its technical system and a lot of other stuff. There‘s just no way in hell the schooling took 20 hours. Maybe the required driving hours before you can take the driving exam are 20 hours, just like 12 hours is the minimum for a regular driver’s license.
I got to ride the Schwebebahn for the first time earlier this month, and it was an absolute blast. That said, there is pretty much no scenario today in which such a system would make sense over a regular elevated train. Let's keep it this way: let other cities build more suitable transit systems, thereby also leaving the Schwebebahn unique and a big tourist draw for Wuppertal.
not entirely true, the footprint and visual obstruction of a modern suspended monorail is even smaller then that of a common elevated railway and a suspended monrail allows for considerable tighter corners/turns then normal monorails and common railway. And there are a couple of places with narrow passages were that matters enough to make it a reasonable choice. 5 modern variants of suspended monorails exist these days, all a version of the H-Bahn system ... yes, a tiny number, but this niche solution has its place whenever you need a transit system navigating a narrow and curvy part in your city without obstructing traffic on roads at the same time.
There are a couple of suspended monorails in Japan - one in Kanagawa and the other in Chiba, although these are based on the French SAFEGE design. There is also the Siemens SIPEM system (aka H-Bahn) with two installations - both in North Rhine-Westphalia - one at Dortmund university and the other at Düsseldorf Airport.
Excellently informative narrative. Suggestion: If in future you're tempted to translate the German conceptual term _Agglomeration_ into English, then use _conurbation_ instead of _agglomeration_ - which more aptly reflects the customary (gebräuchlichere) technical usage in an urban geographic context. Conurbation better describes the merging of multiple urban entities into one continuous urban area, viz. Wuppertal , whereas agglomeration better reflects the expansive development of a unitary municipality into a "Ballungsraum." ...
That's not quite true: it is simply undergoing a lengthy restoration phase. At least that's what it says on the official website, where you can normally book it.
This is one of the numerous examples of Germany's inability to realize its technological potential. Schwebebahn is an engineering miracle, yet both the german government and businesses failed to propagate it outside of Germany. Not so long ago, Chinese manufacturers developed and presented new monorail technology, extremely cheap and extremely fast to build - a pilot project in Optics Valley, with a glass bottom and without a machinist (fully automated).
Monorails are largely useless in germany. There are no cities let alone towns that could benefit from a new schwebebahn being built. Its a very niche product. Chinese cities like chongqing can make use of monorails, in germany its not really a useful technology. If you want to talk about wasted potential, lets talk about the Maglev, fiber internet and many other technologies that the CDU systematically terminated before they could take off.
I think the best name is Danglebahn. Thanks Tim Traveller. It's cool, but there are good reasons why other cities never lined up to copy this. The biggest problem is that because it's supported from above it needs two big wide supports either side - so actually it's pretty space inefficient. A simple elevated railway could have been built with single support pillars in the middle of the river (ugly, but not worse) and then the whole structure only needs to be wide enough for the two tracks. There would be big cost savings for not using proprietary technology and the trains could come off the elevated section at the ends onto regular tram or train tracks.
Have you seen how an elevated railway in the nineteenth century was build? The Wupper does look quite small, but especially before the 1980s, when the dam of the Wuppertalsperre was finisched, it was very prone to flooding. Building structures into the river would have worsen this problem. Also the tracks continue above streets and the factor to be independent of the crowded traffic was a huge benefit of the reliability, as mentioned in the video. And finally and not mentioned in the video. there are also huge benefits in the suspended design with tight turns, because due to the forces the train tilts naturally and comfortably for the passengers. And the the design following the Wupper is curved constantly.
I remember when my dad and I took it together for the first time in October of 1976. I was only four years old, but I have vivid memories of the ride. Since then I've never taken it again, because I live too far away and when I was in Wuppertal later, I always was there by car. Thanks for sharing and commenting on the history of the Schwebebahn!
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Growing up in Wuppertal (in the 90s) i remember older folks calling it the "city of many transportations", cause besides the schwebebahn and the also present bus and train lines it had the so called Bergbahn (a cogwheel train) and a tram aswell. Both of the latter were replaced by busses in the later part of the 20th century, but it still was very present in peoples heads. Also Wuppertal apparently had a ski lift back in the days. Tho tellings of that were scarce, i wouldnt know why it shouldnt, given the hilly landscape and harsher winters back then (especcialy in a closed off valley). Ps: Congrats to 25k Subs 🎉
From my understanding those are pretty high levels of water. The original construction happened in the summer months as the water level is much lower then.
I rode it a few times when visiting and it likely is the ideal mass transit solution for a city of such an unusual elongated shape, flanking a river in its valley and whatnot. The novelty might wear off but the efficiency and beauty - beholden to anyone who isn't blind - is timeless.
I got to ride it earlier this year with my kids fulfilling a long-held ambition. Great experience but I would ask the transit authorities to make the ticketing simpler. I was there with a German friend from Essen and even he found buying the right ticket from the machine really confusing. For other visitors thinking of making the trip Wuppertal zoo is terrific.
The suspension railway can be used with normal local transport tickets, either with those from the local transport association or with the DeutschlandTicket. Didn't you have one?
I am hoping to ride this some day. I rode the Chiba suspended monorail last summer, and plan to ride the Shonan-Enoshima monorail in early 2025. Perhaps a 2026 trip…
You could hit Germany's suspended railway triangle: There is this one Wuppertal, one in Düsseldorf not far away from Wuppertal and one in Dortmund as well.
@@roymackenzie-jy4lrits an industrial era transportation system and the infrastructure clearly shows that, which is also the exact type of design language to exist in steampunk fiction
We honestly need more of these, even if it is just between a few towns. It's just great stuff, especially for the view you get if you go to or from work.
A most unique light rail system for a most unique problem. I do find it amusing whenever solutions get invented only to find their problem shortly thereafter.
As far as i know it is currently the only proper suspended monorail in the world. The others have sets of two parallel wheels on each bogie running on two tracks hidden within the weather protective casing.
There are more: Schwebefähre Osten, Schwebefähre Rendsburg, Schwebebahn Dresden. All built around the same time by Eugen Langen. And none with more than two stations.
Simply building elevated rail over the river still would have blocked the view of the water. Raising the track even higher let's more light in and preserves the views. Combined with the graceful supports, I think this was the perfect solution and it's why it still runs today.
There was another Schwebebahn im Memphis, TN called the Memphis Monorail. It operated from 1981 until 2018 on a 518 m track, travelling at a speed of only 7 mph. Tom Cruise uses it in his movie "The Firm". th-cam.com/video/D0vCzkK_AJ0/w-d-xo.html
May I enquire to the source of the claim of the safest form of transportation? I'm not sure how that sits with those 20 incidents, the deaths, broken bones, etc. Off the top of my head, I would think the Japanese Shinkansen would be far safer. Perhaps I have misunderstood.
Good question, I read that claim in several German language sources, unfortunately with no additional context. I would guess they put the 4 deaths in relation to 123 years of service, although I did not manage to find a good source for the amount of total passengers since 1901. You could (which I will not) make a very cynical and bad taste case that there have been suicides by Shinkansen, which is not possible with the Schwebebahn.
Interesting to see the background to it being chosen against other concepts, with essentially the lack of city planning leading to a really long settlement, being a nightmare for traversing... Wait... Is this kinda a established and historically proven slow burn in the direction of NEOM/"The Line", just that they pump it up to the max as if a gimmick may not be an intended planning mistake? 🤔
The interesting thing about the concept Schwebebahn is that theoretically there’s no place where it could operate profitable. But the Ruhrpott doesn’t follow rules anyway and the Schwebebahn is a great example for that.
There is a lot of merging regionally, but Wuppertal is Bergisches Land. Wuppertal and Solingen do have Ruhrpott-vibes for sure, but we can´t give you these magical places.
@europe_trains no, it's not. It borders the Ruhr Area but it's not part of it. Only members of the Regionalverband Ruhr make up the Ruhr Area. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruhr
11:20 this number is wrong. This would suggest that trains which are in the 70% section are actually arriving, which is not the case. You know, if a train is not arriving at all, DB claims it's on time and it's not counted as delayed. So if a train gets canceled, it's counted as being on time. 🥲
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No, because it is too small 🥲
It could need some unique things like this though I guess
@@abwasserpumpe I was surprised to learn that Wuppertal has 360,000 inhabitants, way more than I had expected. The closest we will get to a flagship project like the Schwebebahn in Germany will probably be the cable car Leipzig has been debating forever.
Madison, Wisconsin, USA is constrained geographically, but by lakes, not a steep valley. Besides that general US antagonism towards mass transit, I could see an elevated structure through town meeting stiff resistance. An elevated structure is bound to block views of the lakes and change the landscape. We have several lightly used freight railroad corridors that could be converted to passenger rail if desired, and the limestone bedrock in the area is easier to tunnel if we wanted to go that far.
No. How would that work, if our busses (or trains) don't to begin with? XD Okay, seriously though, my little home village is too small to be able to fund this. And our Municipality (Verbandsgemeinde) would also probably never be able to fund it!
Honestly,. it wouldn't even work in Wuppertal today. A project like that would die in between Nimbys and planning requirements during the paper stage. We Germans as a whole have lost the ability to build great engineering projects because the main motivations for most people are "not getting blamed for anything that might go wrong" and "don't get used to anything new, that's too hard of a requirement".
I love the schwebebahn and especially as it's wheelchair accessible. Over 100 years old and up above a river yet I had no trouble at all using the system. Other transit systems take note!
That's great to hear! Kudos to them!
I’ve always said we need this here as an option in Bendigo in Australia, our land is riddled with mineshafts that make construction of an underground rail pretty much impossible, our roads are overcrowded and we can’t really fit trams in like we used to have, and our city is growing exponentially and needs new transit options, yet raised metro rail trains would be overkill.
Something like this would be able to adapt to our unique issues and work around our poor road and traffic conditions. Our history matches very closely to the situations that this rail solved, and it would actually fit quite well with our city architecture, especially if we mirrored the Wuppertal systems style.
"It's older then any human being alive today" is such an interesting thing to say
I lived in Wuppertal for 5 month to do an internship at a company and used the Schwebebahn every now and again. I lived at walking distance from the office so i did not need any form of public transport, so i just rode the schwebebahn for fun.
Just imagine that: that your city's public transit system is so cool that people actually take it for fun! In many cities public transit is so bad people won't use it even if they get paid. In Wuppertal that public transit is so great that it even attracts turist to ride it just for fun.
@@XEinstein I travelled to Wuppertal for the day specifically to ride the Schwebebahn with my friends. They both travelled from Berlin and I travelled from Scotland! We took trains there, rode the train, bought a model train and took the train home.
I'm from the U.S., and really love European rail systems, so I had to go to Wuppertal!
I rode it for an hour, and absolutely loved it. Thanks for the great video!
in 2014 the Deutsche Bahn gave away free rides for rebate card holders on days when German athletes won a gold medal in the winter olympics. When the day came I went on a full day trip from Berlin to Wuppertal mainly to ride the Schwebebahn =)
Very cool! In Dresden there is also a small Suspended Monorail line which was also designed by Eugen Langen :)
I've seen pictures of it! It seems like it just hangs a couple centimeters above the ground, is that the case for the whole track?
@@MindTheMap no, distance to ground varies on its rather short climb up a steep hill, crossing two small roads at a safe height. Its actual a funicular just using the Langen rail suspension design because the roads couldnt be crossed with a funiclar on common rails at such a steep angle.
I'm from Wuppertal and this was a great video. I'm confused about how becoming a driver only takes 20 hours? My neighbour in Wuppertal was a driver and I remember that he had to study for several months in order to be certified. He also had to work as a bus driver for several years in order to qualify. I'm not sure if nowadays you can go directly to the Schwebebahn or if you still have to start as a bus driver, but the 20 hours claim seems pretty sus to me, even if we assume that the technology is more sophisticated nowadays than it was back in the early 2000s.
Becomming a certified public transport bus/tram/metro driver is not an easy study.
Its not just the driverslicense but also aditional studies like first aid, special training (f.e. standing passengers) psychologic and background checks etc.etc
After all that 20 hours of aditional training to allow the driver to drive a hanging bus/tram/metro on the Schwebebahn makes perfect sense.
@ Yes, I‘m aware. He had to study about the history of the Schwebebahn and all its technical system and a lot of other stuff. There‘s just no way in hell the schooling took 20 hours. Maybe the required driving hours before you can take the driving exam are 20 hours, just like 12 hours is the minimum for a regular driver’s license.
I got to ride the Schwebebahn for the first time earlier this month, and it was an absolute blast.
That said, there is pretty much no scenario today in which such a system would make sense over a regular elevated train.
Let's keep it this way: let other cities build more suitable transit systems, thereby also leaving the Schwebebahn unique and a big tourist draw for Wuppertal.
Yes there is. But it makes only sense in a city with the topography like Wuppertal.
not entirely true, the footprint and visual obstruction of a modern suspended monorail is even smaller then that of a common elevated railway and a suspended monrail allows for considerable tighter corners/turns then normal monorails and common railway. And there are a couple of places with narrow passages were that matters enough to make it a reasonable choice. 5 modern variants of suspended monorails exist these days, all a version of the H-Bahn system ... yes, a tiny number, but this niche solution has its place whenever you need a transit system navigating a narrow and curvy part in your city without obstructing traffic on roads at the same time.
There are a couple of suspended monorails in Japan - one in Kanagawa and the other in Chiba, although these are based on the French SAFEGE design. There is also the Siemens SIPEM system (aka H-Bahn) with two installations - both in North Rhine-Westphalia - one at Dortmund university and the other at Düsseldorf Airport.
maglev is being built in japan
A new suspended monorail was also completed in Wuhan, China in 2023.
Excellently informative narrative.
Suggestion: If in future you're tempted to translate the German conceptual term _Agglomeration_ into English, then use _conurbation_ instead of _agglomeration_ - which more aptly reflects the customary (gebräuchlichere) technical usage in an urban geographic context.
Conurbation better describes the merging of multiple urban entities into one continuous urban area, viz. Wuppertal , whereas agglomeration better reflects the expansive development of a unitary municipality into a "Ballungsraum." ...
Nice video! Just one thing though: The Kaiserwagen was retired recently. It now sits in the Schwebodrom, a modern Schwebebahn museum.
That's not quite true: it is simply undergoing a lengthy restoration phase. At least that's what it says on the official website, where you can normally book it.
We don't really need new ideas for transit, we just need to actually build more trains.
This is one of the numerous examples of Germany's inability to realize its technological potential. Schwebebahn is an engineering miracle, yet both the german government and businesses failed to propagate it outside of Germany. Not so long ago, Chinese manufacturers developed and presented new monorail technology, extremely cheap and extremely fast to build - a pilot project in Optics Valley, with a glass bottom and without a machinist (fully automated).
Monorails are largely useless in germany. There are no cities let alone towns that could benefit from a new schwebebahn being built. Its a very niche product. Chinese cities like chongqing can make use of monorails, in germany its not really a useful technology. If you want to talk about wasted potential, lets talk about the Maglev, fiber internet and many other technologies that the CDU systematically terminated before they could take off.
Took the train from Karlsruhe to Wuppertal on a day I had off and it was worth the journey. Cool town and cool Schwebebahn
Just discovered and subscribed to your channel. Fascinating videos that keep my attention. Vielen Dank!
Danke :) Welcome to our little Urbanism & Transit community!
Nice video! I never thought the Wuppertal Schwebebahn was this old
Thank you! And thank you for your Animation as well!
I think the best name is Danglebahn. Thanks Tim Traveller.
It's cool, but there are good reasons why other cities never lined up to copy this. The biggest problem is that because it's supported from above it needs two big wide supports either side - so actually it's pretty space inefficient. A simple elevated railway could have been built with single support pillars in the middle of the river (ugly, but not worse) and then the whole structure only needs to be wide enough for the two tracks. There would be big cost savings for not using proprietary technology and the trains could come off the elevated section at the ends onto regular tram or train tracks.
Have you seen how an elevated railway in the nineteenth century was build?
The Wupper does look quite small, but especially before the 1980s, when the dam of the Wuppertalsperre was finisched, it was very prone to flooding. Building structures into the river would have worsen this problem.
Also the tracks continue above streets and the factor to be independent of the crowded traffic was a huge benefit of the reliability, as mentioned in the video.
And finally and not mentioned in the video. there are also huge benefits in the suspended design with tight turns, because due to the forces the train tilts naturally and comfortably for the passengers. And the the design following the Wupper is curved constantly.
I remember when my dad and I took it together for the first time in October of 1976. I was only four years old, but I have vivid memories of the ride. Since then I've never taken it again, because I live too far away and when I was in Wuppertal later, I always was there by car. Thanks for sharing and commenting on the history of the Schwebebahn!
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Growing up in Wuppertal (in the 90s) i remember older folks calling it the "city of many transportations", cause besides the schwebebahn and the also present bus and train lines it had the so called Bergbahn (a cogwheel train) and a tram aswell. Both of the latter were replaced by busses in the later part of the 20th century, but it still was very present in peoples heads. Also Wuppertal apparently had a ski lift back in the days. Tho tellings of that were scarce, i wouldnt know why it shouldnt, given the hilly landscape and harsher winters back then (especcialy in a closed off valley).
Ps: Congrats to 25k Subs 🎉
Was the river level up during filming? It looked like the bottom of several supports were partially submerged.
From my understanding those are pretty high levels of water. The original construction happened in the summer months as the water level is much lower then.
Yes. The elephant statue usually sits dry on a rock in the river.
I rode it a few times when visiting and it likely is the ideal mass transit solution for a city of such an unusual elongated shape, flanking a river in its valley and whatnot. The novelty might wear off but the efficiency and beauty - beholden to anyone who isn't blind - is timeless.
Timeless is a great way to describe the Schwebebahn!
I got to ride it earlier this year with my kids fulfilling a long-held ambition. Great experience but I would ask the transit authorities to make the ticketing simpler. I was there with a German friend from Essen and even he found buying the right ticket from the machine really confusing. For other visitors thinking of making the trip Wuppertal zoo is terrific.
The suspension railway can be used with normal local transport tickets, either with those from the local transport association or with the DeutschlandTicket. Didn't you have one?
I am hoping to ride this some day. I rode the Chiba suspended monorail last summer, and plan to ride the Shonan-Enoshima monorail in early 2025. Perhaps a 2026 trip…
You could hit Germany's suspended railway triangle: There is this one Wuppertal, one in Düsseldorf not far away from Wuppertal and one in Dortmund as well.
This looks cyberpunk
It’s more steampunk than cyberpunk to me tho
More like Teslapunk…
Except it actually worked on release
@EonityLuna what makes it steampunk?
@@roymackenzie-jy4lrits an industrial era transportation system and the infrastructure clearly shows that, which is also the exact type of design language to exist in steampunk fiction
The coolest thing. Great video
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We honestly need more of these, even if it is just between a few towns. It's just great stuff, especially for the view you get if you go to or from work.
There's now a suspended monorail system in Wuhan, China, with several videos on TH-cam about it.
Love the portentous Slow~Mo at the start. Bravo ragazzo!
A most unique light rail system for a most unique problem. I do find it amusing whenever solutions get invented only to find their problem shortly thereafter.
As far as i know it is currently the only proper suspended monorail in the world.
The others have sets of two parallel wheels on each bogie running on two tracks hidden within the weather protective casing.
The other systems also use rubber tires. Wuppertal Uses steel wheels just like other railways.
Düsseldorf Airport and Dresden University got a Smaller but still Public Transporting Schwebebahn
There are more: Schwebefähre Osten, Schwebefähre Rendsburg, Schwebebahn Dresden. All built around the same time by Eugen Langen. And none with more than two stations.
Fantastic video. Hoping to visit the Wuppertal one day.
Thank you Mark!
I have had the pleasure to travel on this amazing system👍👍👍
Simply building elevated rail over the river still would have blocked the view of the water. Raising the track even higher let's more light in and preserves the views. Combined with the graceful supports, I think this was the perfect solution and it's why it still runs today.
The project went only slightly over budget.
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I wonder if more places will start building schwebabahn lines.
Perhaps even between cities.
There are hardly any places where this makes sense, whether for geographical or financial reasons.
@@DJKLProductions A fair point, I guess more conventional railways would be a more cost-effective solution in most places.
The Schwebebahn or the WSW sadly doesnt operate the Kaiserwagen anymore...
I've been on the one in Japan, they are an interesting ride.
It's gorgeous!
Love yor content. Id be happy to see content about the stadtbahn rheinruhr .As live there aswell i could even halp you with that.
There was another Schwebebahn im Memphis, TN called the Memphis Monorail. It operated from 1981 until 2018 on a 518 m track, travelling at a speed of only 7 mph. Tom Cruise uses it in his movie "The Firm".
th-cam.com/video/D0vCzkK_AJ0/w-d-xo.html
Just found out about the Lego bridge too.
Why did they let the elephant on in the first place? Did he have a ticket? Are elephants still riding the train?
TIL das der Markenname Tuffi aus Wuppertal kommt
More global cities need to build this!!!!!
Lol Elon Gated... Who says Germans aren't funny
May I enquire to the source of the claim of the safest form of transportation? I'm not sure how that sits with those 20 incidents, the deaths, broken bones, etc. Off the top of my head, I would think the Japanese Shinkansen would be far safer. Perhaps I have misunderstood.
Good question, I read that claim in several German language sources, unfortunately with no additional context. I would guess they put the 4 deaths in relation to 123 years of service, although I did not manage to find a good source for the amount of total passengers since 1901.
You could (which I will not) make a very cynical and bad taste case that there have been suicides by Shinkansen, which is not possible with the Schwebebahn.
What does he say at (2:35)? “...after klarliff by workers on the track to the front bogie off the roof of the car.” Anyone?
It's "Railcar 4 plunged into the Wupper after a claw left by workers on the track tore the front bogie off the roof of the car."
Only slightly over budget, 16 instead of 1 million Reichsmark :D
Oh, the 1 million was per kilometre, and the Schwebebahn being 13,28 km long, it was indeed only slightly over budget.
5:21 "Elon Gated" Listen here du kleine sche... 10/10
5:20
Elon-gated
Speaker of this video need to work on his accent . English doesn't merge separate words into chimera words like german do . Its painfull to listen .
Interesting to see the background to it being chosen against other concepts, with essentially the lack of city planning leading to a really long settlement, being a nightmare for traversing... Wait... Is this kinda a established and historically proven slow burn in the direction of NEOM/"The Line", just that they pump it up to the max as if a gimmick may not be an intended planning mistake? 🤔
The interesting thing about the concept Schwebebahn is that theoretically there’s no place where it could operate profitable. But the Ruhrpott doesn’t follow rules anyway and the Schwebebahn is a great example for that.
There is a lot of merging regionally, but Wuppertal is Bergisches Land. Wuppertal and Solingen do have Ruhrpott-vibes for sure, but we can´t give you these magical places.
Wuppertal isn't the Ruhrgebiet though, it's part of the Bergisches Land directly south of the Ruhr Area
@ Its considered to be in the Ruhrgebiet altough it is at the border of it. That’s atleast what I could find out.
@europe_trains no, it's not. It borders the Ruhr Area but it's not part of it. Only members of the Regionalverband Ruhr make up the Ruhr Area.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruhr
@ Thanks for correcting me.
11:20 this number is wrong. This would suggest that trains which are in the 70% section are actually arriving, which is not the case. You know, if a train is not arriving at all, DB claims it's on time and it's not counted as delayed. So if a train gets canceled, it's counted as being on time. 🥲
“Sorry for ze inconwienience. Byeee!”
Sorry for always making fun of German. Byeee
Sorry but it´s so hard to me listen a german guy speaking english with this so strong accent !!
TF... the accent wasn't even that strong. I bet you speak murican English only....
🚟 can’t believe that there’s actually an emoji for this