Suspended "flying" train in Wuppertal in Germany in 1902

https://twitter.com/1967lrjones/status/1292404107886694404?s=20

 

Amazing footage. In the mid -70's I was taken to see and ride the Schwebebahn by a DB steam driver (from Wanne-Eickel Depot). Together with roaming around the Ruhr on the footplate of 044 -585 and 044-650, it gave me some of my happiest memories from those distant halcyon days!

 

Of course, this is an unbelievable thing to see in your lifetime, but I get why they decided to suspend it. You can clearly see how slow the train was going and also the risks you were exposed to when riding this train. If the thing that was holding it broke, then there could have been a lot of victims. Unfortunately, it is impractical and prolonged compared to the current trains that german companies like https://www.dbauskunft.com/de/ have in their possession.

 

Just looked it up, it is still operating, and the stock has only just been modernised. Have any posters been on it?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuppertal_Schwebebahn

 

I rode the Schwebebahn back in the early '90s. I don't recall any lift access, which was hard on my old mum who I was taking on her first visit to Germany.

 

When I was there in 1971 I managed to get a photo of a Schwebebahn train passing over a tram, which is unfortunately no longer possible as Wuppertal did away with its trams -
https://www.flickr.com/photos/21602076@N05/31369013152

 

You can still do it at the other end with a trolleybus, though both modes rolling stock have been replaced now.....



The Solingen trolleybus turning loop runs under the Schwebebahn for several hundred yards in the main street at Vohwinkel

 

Did it in 2006 along with a visit to the Harz. Well worth a visit.

 

Did the same a few years ago, maybe 2017.


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