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May 21st, 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.
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Reply #1 - May 21st, 2024 at 9:37am  
Sydney's trains run on a monorail with only one balance rail.
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Reply #2 - May 21st, 2024 at 10:01am  
freediver wrote on May 21st, 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.
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Reply #3 - May 21st, 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.
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Reply #4 - May 21st, 2024 at 1:00pm  

What's it called?  Monorail!
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Reply #5 - May 21st, 2024 at 1:01pm  
freediver wrote on May 21st, 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.
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Reply #6 - May 21st, 2024 at 1:16pm  
Sir Eoin O Fada wrote on May 21st, 2024 at 1:01pm:
freediver wrote on May 21st, 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.
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Reply #7 - May 21st, 2024 at 9:19pm  
freediver wrote on May 21st, 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.
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Reply #8 - May 21st, 2024 at 9:25pm  
chimera wrote on May 21st, 2024 at 9:19pm:
freediver wrote on May 21st, 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.
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Reply #9 - May 21st, 2024 at 9:35pm  
Like a right angle? It's a mono shape with two (2) rails.
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Reply #10 - May 23rd, 2024 at 9:39am  
By definition a monorail has only one rail.
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Reply #11 - May 23rd, 2024 at 9:41am  
Yes.
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Reply #12 - May 23rd, 2024 at 1:38pm  
But in which direction?
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Reply #13 - Aug 15th, 2024 at 12:39am  
Sir Eoin O Fada wrote on May 21st, 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.
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