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Suspension railway, the Glossary

A suspension railway is a form of elevated monorail in which the vehicle is suspended from a fixed track (as opposed to a cable used in aerial tramways), which is built above streets, waterways, or existing railway track.^[1]

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Suspended monorails

Aerial tramway

An aerial tramway, aerial tram, sky tram, aerial cablecar, aerial cableway, telepherique, or seilbahn is a type of aerial lift which uses one or two stationary ropes for support while a third moving rope provides propulsion.

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Automated guideway transit

An automated guideway transit (AGT) or automated fixed-guideway transit or automatic guideway transit system is a type of fixed guideway transit infrastructure with a riding or suspension track that supports and physically guides one or more driverless vehicles along its length.

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Bennie Railplane

The Bennie Railplane was a form of rail transport invented by George Bennie (1891–1957), which moved along an overhead rail by way of propellers.

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Braniff International Airways

Braniff Airways, Inc., operated as Braniff International Airways from 1948 until 1965, and then Braniff International from 1965 until air operations ceased, was a United States trunk carrier, a scheduled airline that operated from 1928 until 1982 and continues today as a retailer, hotelier, travel service and branding and licensing company, administering the former airline's employee pass program and other airline administrative duties.

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Châteauneuf-sur-Loire

Châteauneuf-sur-Loire is a commune in the Loiret department in north-central France.

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Chengdu

Chengdu is the capital city of the Chinese province of Sichuan.

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Cheshunt

Cheshunt is a town in the Borough of Broxbourne in Hertfordshire, England, north of Central London on the River Lea and Lee Navigation and directly south of Broxbourne.

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Chiba (city)

is the capital city of Chiba Prefecture, Japan.

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Chiba Urban Monorail

The is a two-line suspended monorail system located in Chiba, Chiba Prefecture, Japan. Suspension railway and Chiba Urban Monorail are suspended monorails.

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Chikusa-ku, Nagoya

is one of the 16 wards of the city of Nagoya in Aichi Prefecture, Japan.

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China Railway Group Limited

China Railway Group Limited, known as CREC (the acronym of its predecessor and parent company China Railway Engineering Corporation), is a Chinese construction company which floats in Shanghai and Hong Kong stock exchanges.

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CRRC Qingdao Sifang

CRRC Qingdao Sifang Co., Ltd. is a Chinese rolling stock manufacturer based in Qingdao, Shandong province.

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Dallas Love Field

Dallas Love Field is a city-owned public airport in the neighborhood of Love Field, northwest of downtown Dallas, Texas.

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Düsseldorf Airport

Düsseldorf Airport (Flughafen Düsseldorf), known as Düsseldorf International Airport until March 2013, is an international airport serving Düsseldorf, the capital of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

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Dortmund

Dortmund (Düörpm; Tremonia) is the third-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia, after Cologne and Düsseldorf, and the ninth-largest city in Germany.

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Dresden

Dresden (Upper Saxon: Dräsdn; Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and it is the second most populous city after Leipzig.

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Dresden Suspension Railway

The Dresden Suspension Railway (Schwebebahn Dresden) is a suspended funicular located in Dresden, Germany, and connects the districts of Loschwitz and Oberloschwitz (Rochwitz side). Suspension railway and Dresden Suspension Railway are suspended monorails.

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Elevated railway

An elevated railway or elevated train (also known as an el train or el for short) is a railway with the tracks above street level on a viaduct or other elevated structure (usually constructed from steel, cast iron, concrete, or bricks).

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Enshi City

Enshi is a county-level city in and the seat of Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, in western Hubei province, China.

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Eugen Langen

Carl Eugen Langen (9 October 1833 in Cologne – 2 October 1895 in Elsdorf) was a German entrepreneur, engineer and inventor, involved in the development of the petrol engine and the Wuppertal Suspension Railway.

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Friedrich Harkort

Friedrich Harkort (February 22, 1793, Hagen - March 6, 1880), known as the "Father of the Ruhr," was an early prominent German industrialist and pioneer of industrial development in the Ruhr region.

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Glasgow

Glasgow is the most populous city in Scotland, located on the banks of the River Clyde in west central Scotland.

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Goa

Goa is a state on the southwestern coast of India within the Konkan region, geographically separated from the Deccan highlands by the Western Ghats.

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Greenville, Jersey City

Greenville is the southernmost section of Jersey City in Hudson County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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H-Bahn

The H-Bahn (abbreviation for Hängebahn, German for 'hanging railway') in Dortmund and Düsseldorf (there known as "Sky train") is a driverless passenger suspension railway system.

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Henry Robinson Palmer

Henry Robinson Palmer (1795–1844) was a British civil engineer who designed the world's second monorail and the first elevated railway. Suspension railway and Henry Robinson Palmer are suspended monorails.

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Higashiyama Zoo and Botanical Gardens

The is a joint zoo and botanical garden located at Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, Japan.

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Internal combustion engine

An internal combustion engine (ICE or IC engine) is a heat engine in which the combustion of a fuel occurs with an oxidizer (usually air) in a combustion chamber that is an integral part of the working fluid flow circuit.

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Irvine, North Ayrshire

Irvine (Irvin; Irbhinn) is a town and former royal burgh on the coast of the Firth of Clyde in North Ayrshire, Scotland.

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Jetrail

Braniff Jetrail Fastpark System was a suspended monorail system that operated at Dallas Love Field in Dallas, Texas, United States, from April 18, 1970, until January 13, 1974.

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Kamakura

officially is a city of Kanagawa Prefecture in Japan.

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Kanagawa Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu.

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Krasnogorsk, Moscow Oblast

Krasnogorsk (Красногорск) is a city and the administrative center of Krasnogorsky District in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located on the Moskva River, adjacent to the northwestern boundary of Moscow.

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Krasnogorsky District

Krasnogorsky District (Красного́рский райо́н, Krasnogórskiy raion) is the name of several administrative and municipal districts in Russia.

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Margao

Margao is the commercial capital of the Indian state of Goa.

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Memphis Suspension Railway

The Memphis Suspension Railway, Mud Island Monorail, or Memphis Monorail is a suspended monorail that connected the city center of Memphis with the entertainment park on Mud Island. Suspension railway and Memphis Suspension Railway are suspended monorails.

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Monorail

A monorail is a railway in which the track consists of a single rail or beam.

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Mud Island, Memphis

Mud Island is a small peninsula in Memphis, Tennessee.

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Nicolaus Otto

Nicolaus August Otto (10 June 1832 – 26 January 1891) was a German engineer who successfully developed the compressed charge internal combustion engine which ran on petroleum gas and led to the modern internal combustion engine.

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Odesa

Odesa (also spelled Odessa) is the third most populous city and municipality in Ukraine and a major seaport and transport hub located in the south-west of the country, on the northwestern shore of the Black Sea.

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Paris Métro Line 11

Paris Métro Line 11 (French: Ligne 11 du métro de Paris) is one of the sixteen lines of the Paris Métro.

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Personal rapid transit

Personal rapid transit (PRT), also referred to as podcars or guided/railed taxis, is a public transport mode featuring a network of specially built guideways on which ride small automated vehicles that carry few (generally less than 6) passengers per vehicle.

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Port of Hamburg

The Port of Hamburg (Hamburger Hafen) is a seaport on the river Elbe in Hamburg, Germany, from its mouth on the North Sea.

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Qingdao Port

The Port of Qingdao is a seaport on the Yellow Sea in the vicinity of Qingdao (Tsingtao), Shandong Province, People's Republic of China.

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ROMAG

ROMAG was a personal rapid transit (PRT) system produced by the American company Rohr, Inc. It featured a linear induction motor that was arranged to provide both traction and suspension in a magnetic levitation system.

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Royal Arsenal

The Royal Arsenal, Woolwich is an establishment on the south bank of the River Thames in Woolwich in south-east London, England, that was used for the manufacture of armaments and ammunition, proofing, and explosives research for the British armed forces.

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Ruhr

The Ruhr (Ruhrgebiet, also Ruhrpott), also referred to as the Ruhr area, sometimes Ruhr district, Ruhr region, or Ruhr valley, is a polycentric urban area in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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SAFEGE

SAFEGE is an acronym for the French consortium Société Anonyme Française d'Etude de Gestion et d'Entreprises (French Limited Company for the Study of Management and Business) and is pronounced in English. Suspension railway and SAFEGE are suspended monorails.

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Shonan Monorail

The is a suspended SAFEGE monorail in the cities of Kamakura and Fujisawa in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. Suspension railway and Shonan Monorail are suspended monorails.

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Shweeb

Shweeb is a proposed personal rapid transit network in New Zealand, based on human-powered monorail cars.

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Siemens

Siemens AG is a German multinational technology conglomerate.

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Skybus Metro

The Skybus Metro was a prototype suspended railway system by Indian technologist B. Rajaram with the BEML and Konkan Railway which is patented by the Indian Railways. Suspension railway and Skybus Metro are suspended monorails.

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Suspended roller coaster

A suspended roller coaster (not to be confused with an inverted roller coaster) is a steel roller coaster model in which passengers are seated in open-top, boat-like gondolas that hang under the track.

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Taitō

is a special ward in the Tokyo Metropolis in Japan.

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Tbilisi

Tbilisi (თბილისი), in some languages still known by its pre-1936 name Tiflis, (tr) is the capital and largest city of Georgia, lying on the banks of the Kura River with a population of around 1.2 million people.

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Technical University of Dortmund

TU Dortmund University (Technische Universität Dortmund) is a technical university in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany with over 35,000 students, and over 6,000 staff including 300 professors, offering around 80 Bachelor's and master's degree programs.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspension_railway

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