Scenic route
Wuppertal Schwebebahn
Oberbarmen → Vohwinkel · Germany
Wuppertal Schwebebahn in pictures
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- Distance
- 13 km
- Fastest time
- 30 min
- Average speed
- 26 km/h
- Top speed
- 60 km/h
- Operator
- WSW mobil
- Train
- Generation 15 suspended electric units
- Countries
- Germany
- In service since
- 1901
- Riders per year
- ≈ 25M
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The world’s oldest electric suspension railway, hanging from a steel frame above the Wupper river since 1901, a monorail that never stopped commuting.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 1999988 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 5 m from it
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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