Why Does Germany Build Suspended Monorails (When Almost Nobody Else Does)?

*** FILMED IN 2019 ***. Suspended monorails are very rare: there are only 8 working systems on the planet. So how have Germany got four of them? Is Germany the future? I went to Düsseldorf to investigate...

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FURTHER RESEARCH
https://www.railway-technology.com/pr...
https://www.monorails.org/tMspages/Sk...
Great little vid on the Skytrain by Calling All Stations: S2E3: The Dusseldorf Airport Suspensi...
Archive footage of the Bennie Railplane from Pathé: The "George Bennie" Railplane! (1930)


IMAGE CREDITS

SAFEGE Test Track by Jean-Henri Manara - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

Dresden Bergbahn by Norbert Aepli - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

Bennie Railplane blue plaque by Richard Sutcliffe - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

Closeup of Wuppertal wheels by Matthias Böhm - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

Higashiyama Park Monorail in Nagoya by 円周率３パーセント (Enshuritsu 3 percent) - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...