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unusual facts about monorail



Chennai Monorail

Again, when the new AIADMK government came to power in 2011, the current Chief Minister Jayalalithaa, through the Governor Surjit Singh Barnala's address to the assembly, stated that the Chennai Monorail project of around 300 km will be revived and would supplement the existing metro rail systems that were implemented by the previous DMK government.

Colonel C. W. Bowles

This experiment allowed him to perfect the monorail based on the Ewing System which he subsequently used to construct the Patiala State Monorail Trainways at Patiala.

Doug Ford, Jr.

In 2011, Ford promoted an alternate vision for the Port Lands district of Toronto, including a monorail, a boat-in hotel, the world's largest Ferris wheel and a mega-mall.

Henry Palmer

Henry Robinson Palmer (1795–1844), English engineer, in 1824 produced designs for a horse-drawn suspended monorail

John Pidgeon

Key construction projects undertaken by the company are: The Brisbane Club; Waterfront Place; the Brisbane Transit Centre; the Broadbeach Monorail; The Oasis Shopping Centre and Hotel; The Suncorp Metway Building; the Stradbroke and Macleay Towers – Dockside; Cathedral Square; 313 Adelaide Street; and the Bank of Queensland Building.

Kundala Valley Railway

This monorail was based on the Ewing System and had a small wheel placed on the track while a larger wheel rested on the road to balance the monorail.

Lahore Metro

In June 2010, Malaysia based Scomi International proposed a US$1.15 billion monorail–based alternative to LRMTS.

Monorails in Russia

This design was similar to the magnetic monorail built by Emile Bachelet in France in 1910.

Mumbai Monorail

On 18 August 2008 Vilasrao Deshmukh, the then Chief Minister of Maharashtra, cleared the notification for construction of a monorail system in Mumbai.

The Mumbai Monorail was officially inaugurated on 1 February 2014 by Prithviraj Chavan, the Chief Minsiter of Maharshtra.

Nara Dreamland

It also had a Matterhorn-type mountain (with a Matterhorn Bobsleds-type ride, called Bobsleigh), and the skyway running through it, as well as an Autopia-type ride and a monorail.

Pentacycle

A 2002 design, specifically designed to use the disused Aérotrain monorail track near Orléans, is more accurately described a tricycle: although it has five wheels, two are actually used for guidance, being placed on either side of the monorail support.

Pulau Palawan

It lies approximately opposite Beach Station of the Sentosa Express monorail system, which is between Siloso Beach and Palawan Beach.

Richard McIver

In his 2001 campaign, he defeated music critic, monorail booster and author Grant Cogswell.

SAFEGE

The test track built in France by SAFEGE in 1959, is a 1.4 kilometre monorail line featured prominently in the 1966 movie adaptation of Fahrenheit 451, directed by François Truffaut.

Seattle Center Monorail

The Seattle Center Monorail is an elevated monorail line in Seattle, Washington, that runs a little under one mile along Fifth Avenue between Seattle Center in Lower Queen Anne and Westlake Center in Downtown.

Syarikat Prasarana Negara

Rapid Rail – operates the operational 60 stations along the Ampang Line, Kelana Jaya Line and Monorail Line consists of the LRT and monorail network in Kuala Lumpur under brand name of Rapid KL.

Vehicular automation

Groups such as RUF (Denmark), BiWay (UK), ATN (New Zealand) and TriTrack (USA) are working on projects consisting of private cars that dock onto monorail tracks and are driven autonomously around the track.

View camera

Sinar and Toyo are popular manufacturers of monorail view camera systems.

Walt Disney World Monorail System

On March 19, 2010, Disney debuted Monorail TRON on the Epcot line as part of a marketing plan for Tron: Legacy.

In March 2013, Monorail Black was given a similar conversion to promote the release of Iron Man 3.

In April 2013, Monorail Teal was converted into a special scheme commemorating the release of Monsters University.


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