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http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl General Discussion >> Technically Speaking >> Monorails http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1716245198 Message started by Sir Eoin O Fada on May 21^st, 2024 at 8:46am

Title: Monorails
Post by Sir Eoin O Fada on May 21^st, 2024 at 8:46am

How many of the world’s monorails are really monorails?
Just watched part of a video shewing a ‘monorail’ in Japan that was the usual running rail and two steadying raails, making it a trirail.

Title: Re: Monorails
Post by freediver on May 21^st, 2024 at 9:37am

Sydney's trains run on a monorail with only one balance rail.

Title: Re: Monorails
Post by Sir Eoin O Fada on May 21^st, 2024 at 10:01am

freediver wrote on May 21^st, 2024 at 9:37am:

Sydney's trains run on a monorail with only one balance rail.

Which of the pair is the monorail?
Sydney’s now defunct amusement ride aka the Monorail was actually a narrow gauge railway that used guide wheels instead of flanges.

Title: Re: Monorails
Post by freediver on May 21^st, 2024 at 12:55pm

It depends on which direction you are travelling.

If you are facing towards the tracks, it's the one on your left.

Title: Re: Monorails
Post by greggerypeccary on May 21^st, 2024 at 1:00pm

What's it called? Monorail!

https://youtu.be/ZDOI0cq6GZM

Title: Re: Monorails
Post by Sir Eoin O Fada on May 21^st, 2024 at 1:01pm

freediver wrote on May 21^st, 2024 at 12:55pm:

It depends on which direction you are travelling.

If you are facing towards the tracks, it's the one on your left.

Then that’s a two rail system.

Title: Re: Monorails
Post by freediver on May 21^st, 2024 at 1:16pm

Sir Eoin O Fada wrote on May 21^st, 2024 at 1:01pm:

freediver wrote on May 21^st, 2024 at 12:55pm:

It depends on which direction you are travelling.

If you are facing towards the tracks, it's the one on your left.

Then that’s a two rail system.

Yes. One monorail and one balance rail.

Title: Re: Monorails
Post by chimera on May 21^st, 2024 at 9:19pm

freediver wrote on May 21^st, 2024 at 12:55pm:

If you are facing towards the tracks, it's the one on your left.

The rail is then at right angles across you. And also from the opposite side of the duorail.

Title: Re: Monorails
Post by freediver on May 21^st, 2024 at 9:25pm

chimera wrote on May 21^st, 2024 at 9:19pm:

freediver wrote on May 21^st, 2024 at 12:55pm:

If you are facing towards the tracks, it's the one on your left.

The rail is then at right angles across you. And also from the opposite side of the duorail.

The NSW rail system uses tracks that work in both directions.

Title: Re: Monorails
Post by chimera on May 21^st, 2024 at 9:35pm

Like a right angle? It's a mono shape with two (2) rails.

Title: Re: Monorails
Post by Sir Eoin O Fada on May 23^rd, 2024 at 9:39am

By definition a monorail has only one rail.

Title: Re: Monorails
Post by freediver on May 23^rd, 2024 at 9:41am

Yes.

Title: Re: Monorails
Post by chimera on May 23^rd, 2024 at 1:38pm

But in which direction?

Title: Re: Monorails
Post by RussiAnVetEraN on Aug 15^th, 2024 at 12:39am

Sir Eoin O Fada wrote on May 21^st, 2024 at 8:46am:

How many of the world’s monorails are really monorails?

In Moscow, a relatively small section of the Moscow metro system is a monorail. This train travels quite slowly.

I do not know why it was built. Either the Moscow government wanted to experiment or they were showing off.