Sydney Monorail Construction (1988)

This Von Roll Transport Systems promotional video documents the beginnings of Sydney Monorail. 'A Ride Into The 21st Century' shows the design, construction, testing and opening of the now-dismantled downtown tourist loop monorail. While controversial to locals from day one, tourists always found the monorail to be fun and a great way to move about downtown. The controversial nature of the monorail, coupled with flaws with the layout and Von Roll technical aspects, ultimately resulted in the monorail's demise in 2013. Von Roll Transport Systems had ceased to exist years earlier after being purchased by Adtranz. The Sydney Monorail was Von Roll's first non-amusement urban monorail, yet it included a flawed single-tracked loop as featured on many amusement monorails. Monorail detractors use Sydney as an example of what's wrong with monorail, yet they ignore the dozens of successful non-tourist monorails operating around the world (see monorails.org). If you enjoy the video, please click above on my name for more monorail videos. I also have playlists on Roller Coasters, Funland and Flying. Subscribers welcome!

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