Dresden Suspension Railway

The Monorail is a monorail Dresden in Dresden, which connects the city of Loschwitz and Oberloschwitz. The railway is operated by the Dresden public transport operators, is 274 meters long and covers a difference in altitude of about 84 meters. It was opened on 6 May 1901, nominated in 2007 to the award as Historic landmarks of civil engineering in Germany.

The monorail Dresden is defined as monorail or overhead monorail. The term monorail is technically wrong, because, unlike a magnetic levitation is a constant contact between infrastructure and vehicles. In addition to the adjacent funicular Dresden is one of the two Dresden mountain railways.

History

The continuous double track running track is constructed as the recently opened Wuppertal suspension railway to the system by Eugen Langen and has 33 to 14 meters high supports. The drives of the two oscillating bearing cabins roll on a special steel girder which is named after its inventor also Rieppelträger.

In contrast to the Wuppertal suspension railway Dresdner vehicles do not have a drive, but will be similar to a funicular moved by a traction cable. This one is powered by a located in the mountain station carrier. The track is considered the world's only monorail system that is no adhesion railway.

The suspension railway Dresden survived the Second World War unscathed. However, it was from 1984 to 1992 because total renovation inoperative. 2001/2002 extensive repairs to the supporting frame were made. Also was a partial reconstruction of the hill station. Among other things, an outboard elevator was installed, which makes the roof of the station accessible as a viewing platform. In February 2013, the now 104 years old bull gear of the drive was replaced and taken out of operation on 29 March 2013.

Gallery

Entrance to the valley station

View of the track

Mountain station with viewing platform