List of monorail systems

A monorail is a railway system in which the track consists of a single rail, typically elevated and with the trains suspended from it. The term is also used to describe the beam of the system, or the vehicles traveling on such a beam or track. Many monorail systems run on elevated tracks through crowded areas that would otherwise require the construction of expensive underground lines or have the disadvantages of surface lines.

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The Shanghai maglev train in China

Operational monorails
Location Country Name Year opened Stations System length Type Notes
Gold Coast, Queensland  Australia Sea World Monorail System 1986 3 5.6 km (3.5 mi) Amusement park
Lichtaart  Belgium Bobbejaanland Monorail[1] 1961 3 1.85 km (1.15 mi) Amusement park
São Paulo  Brazil Line 15 (São Paulo Metro) 2014 10 12.8 km (8.0 mi)[2] Urban
Montreal  Canada La Ronde (amusement park) Minirail 1967 2 2.1 km (1.3 mi) Amusement park
Changsha  China Changsha Maglev Express 2016 3 18.6 km (11.5 mi) Urban Medium-speed maglev
Chongqing  China Line 2 (Chongqing Rail Transit) 2005 25 30.3 km (18.8 mi) Urban
Chongqing  China Line 3 (Chongqing Rail Transit) 2011 45 66.2 km (41.1 mi) Urban
Dongguan (Fenggang)  PRC Castfast Hotel Monorail ? 2 ? Hotel
Shanghai  China Shanghai maglev train 2002 2 30.5 km (19.0 mi) Urban High-speed maglev
Shenzhen  China Happy Line 1998 7 3.88 km (2.41 mi) Amusement park
Shenzhen  China Window of the World Monorail 1993 3 1.7 km (1.1 mi) Amusement park
Helsinki  Finland Linnanmäki Monorail (Maisemajuna) 1979 1 0.5 km (0.31 mi) Amusement park
Saint-Pourçain-sur-Besbre  France Le Pal Monorail 1 Amusement park
Wuppertal  Germany Wuppertal Suspension Railway 1901 20 13.3 km (8.3 mi) Urban
Dresden  Germany Dresden Suspension Railway 1901 2 0.27 km (0.17 mi) People mover
Dortmund  Germany H-Bahn Monorail 1984 4 3.16 km (1.96 mi) People mover
Düsseldorf  Germany Düsseldorf SkyTrain Düsseldorf Airport 2002 4 2.5 km (1.6 mi) Airport
Rust  Germany Europa-Park 1995 4 2.5 km (1.6 mi) Amusement park
Soltau  Germany Heide Park 1985 1 1.6 km (0.99 mi) Amusement park
Mumbai  India Mumbai Monorail 2014 17 19.54 km (12.14 mi) Urban
Indramayu Regency  Indonesia Indramayu Monorail 2018 1 7.6 km (4.7 mi) Amusement park
Ravenna  Italy Mirabilandia Monorail 1992 1 1.5 km (0.93 mi) Amusement park
Tokyo  Japan Tokyo Monorail 1964 11 17.8 km (11.1 mi) Urban
Western Tokyo  Japan Tama Toshi Monorail Line 1998 19 16 km (9.9 mi) Urban
Taitō, Tokyo  Japan Ueno Zoo Monorail 1958 2 0.3 km (0.19 mi) Amusement park
Urayasu  Japan Disney Resort Line 2001 4 5 km (3.1 mi) Amusement park
Chiba  Japan Chiba Urban Monorail 1988 18 15.2 km (9.4 mi) Urban
Osaka Prefecture  Japan Osaka Monorail 1990 18 28 km (17 mi) Urban
Kanagawa Prefecture  Japan Shonan Monorail 1970 8 6.6 km (4.1 mi) Urban
Aki-ku, Hiroshima  Japan Skyrail Midorizaka Line 1998 3 1.3 km (0.81 mi) People mover
Kitakyushu  Japan Kitakyushu Monorail 1985 13 8.8 km (5.5 mi) Urban
Naha, Okinawa  Japan Okinawa Urban Monorail 2003 19 17 km (11 mi) Urban
Malacca City, Malacca  Malaysia Melaka Monorail 2010 3 2.5 km (1.6 mi) Other
Kuala Lumpur  Malaysia Kuala Lumpur Monorail 2003 11 8.6 km (5.3 mi) Urban
Mexico City  Mexico Aerotrén 2007 2 3 km (1.9 mi) Airport
The Hague  Netherlands Drievliet Amusement Park Amusement park
Hardenberg  Netherlands Slagharen Amusement Park Amusement park
Hellendoorn  Netherlands Hellendoorn Amusement Park Amusement park
Rhenen  Netherlands Ouwehands Zoo Amusement park
Calabar  Nigeria Calabar Monorail 2016 3[3] 1.1 km (0.68 mi)
Moscow  Russia Moscow Monorail 2004 6 4.7 km (2.9 mi) Urban
Singapore  Singapore Sentosa Express 2007 4 2.1 km (1.3 mi)
Nasrec, Johannesburg  South Africa Expo Centrek Monorail Exposition Centre Located next to the 2010 FIFA World Cup Soccer City) hosts a monorail[4] that operates during major events such as the Rand Easter Show
Sun City  South Africa Sun City Casino Resort Monorail Amusement park Linking day visitor parking area to main complex.[5]
Daegu  South Korea Daegu Metro Line 3 2015 30 23.9 km (14.9 mi) Urban
Zaragoza  Spain Plaza Imperial Monorail[6] 2008 2 0.6 km (0.37 mi)
Dashu District, Kaohsiung  Taiwan E-DA Theme Park Monorail 2 Amusement park Shuttle service
Chiang Mai  Thailand Chiang Mai Zoo Monorail 2005 4 2 km (1.2 mi) Amusement park
Bangkok  Thailand Dream World Theme Park Monorail Amusement park Dream World Theme Park in the northern side of Bangkok has a monorail attraction in Adventure Land
Pattaya  Thailand Pattaya Park Resort Monorail 2 km (1.2 mi) Amusement park
Ashgabat  Turkmenistan Ashgabat Monorail 2016[7] 3 5.2 km (3.2 mi)
Dubai  UAE Palm Jumeirah Monorail 2009 2 5.45 km (3.39 mi)
Alton Towers  UK Alton Towers Monorail 1987 2 1.4 km (0.87 mi) Amusement park Trains were originally used at Expo 86 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Flamingo Land  UK Flamingo Land Monorail Amusement park
Beaulieu, Hampshire  UK National Motor Museum Monorail 1974 2 1.6 km (0.99 mi) Amusement park
Great Yarmouth Pleasure Beach  UK Great Yarmouth Pleasure Beach Monorail 1987[8] 1 Amusement park
Tampa, Florida  US Tampa International Airport monorail 1991 8 1 km (0.62 mi) Airport
Newark, New Jersey  US AirTrain Newark 1996 8 4.8 km (3.0 mi) Airport
Las Vegas, Nevada  US Las Vegas Monorail 2004 7 6.3 km (3.9 mi) Urban
Seattle, Washington  US Seattle Center Monorail 1962 2 1.54 km (0.96 mi) Urban
Anaheim, California  US Disneyland Monorail System 1959 2 4 km (2.5 mi) Amusement park
Bay Lake, Florida  US Walt Disney World Monorail System 1971 6 23.66 km (14.70 mi) Amusement park
Hershey, Pennsylvania  US Hersheypark Amusement park
Lancaster, Pennsylvania  US Dutch Wonderland[9] Amusement park
Ocean City, New Jersey  US Gillians Wonderland Pier Amusement park
Marshal, Wisconsin  US Little Amerricka Amusement park
Miami, Florida  US Miami Zoo Monorail 1984 4 5 km (3.1 mi) Amusement park
New York, New York  US Bronx Zoo Monorail 1977 1 2.6 km (1.6 mi) Amusement park To visit Wild Asia exhibit in the Bronx Zoo
Dallas, Texas  US Dallas Zoo Monorail Amusement park
Gilroy, California  US Gilroy Gardens Monorail Amusement park Provides users with an aerial view of the gardens' giant greenhouse
Sacramento, California  US Cal Expo Monorail 1968 Amusement park California Exposition has a monorail that runs for more than a mile around their fairgrounds. It is only open during the California State Fair[10]
Aiea, Hawaii  US Pearlridge Skycab People mover Pearlridge Center. Connects the Uptown part of the mall to the Downtown part of the mall. It is the only monorail system in Hawaii.
Fairfield, Ohio  US Jungle Jim's International Market Monorail Other Brings riders from a remote parking lot to the Oscar Events Center; cars were originally used at nearby Kings Island.[11]
Memphis, Tennessee  US Memphis Suspension Railway Monorail Other A short suspended monorail connects Mud Island in the Mississippi River to Memphis

This is a listing of operating monorails that are open to the public. Only true monorails (vehicle wider than track) are included; see people mover for a list of monorail-like systems.

Von Roll monorail at Alton Towers, UK, originally built for Expo 86 in Canada
CRT Line 2, Dongwuyuan station in Chongqing, China
The Walt Disney World Monorail System.
The Moscow monorail

Under construction

Physical construction work has started on the following monorails:

Africa
Country City Name of system Opening
Nigeria Port Harcourt Rivers Monorail Unknown

Americas
Country City Name of system Opening
Brazil São Paulo Line 17 2021
Brazil Bahia SkyRail Bahia 2022

Asia
Country City Name of system Opening
China Liuzhou Liuzhou Rail Transit Unknown
China Guang'an Guang'an Metro 2019
China Wuhu Wuhu Metro 2020
Iran Qom Qom Monorail 2019
Malaysia Putrajaya Putrajaya Monorail Unknown
Saudi Arabia Riyadh Riyadh Monorail Unknown
Thailand Bangkok Yellow Line 2022
Thailand Bangkok Pink Line 2022

Europe
Country City Name of system Opening
Italy Bologna Marconi Express 2019

Proposed monorails

Africa


Country City Notes
Spain Las Palmas de Gran Canaria NA
Morocco Fez NA
Nigeria Lagos [12]
South Africa Johannesburg [13]
South Africa Cape Town [13]
Ghana Accra
Egypt Cairo [14][15]
Nigeria Onitsha [16]
Nigeria Aba [17]
Nigeria Umuahia [17]

Americas

Asia

Bangladesh

China

Hong Kong

India

Malaysia

Philippines

Sri Lanka

Vietnam

Europe


  • Liverpool to Manchester Bher monorail, circa 1900[28][29]
  • Manchester Monorail, a 16-mile (26 km) SAFEGE-type monorail proposed in 1966 for Manchester, UK, to run across the city to Manchester Airport[30][31]
  • Preston Monorail, United Kingdom[32]
  • Liverpool Monorail, United Kingdom (to be create as part of the Liverpool Waters project with link to John Lennon Airport
  • Thessaloniki Monorail, Greece, proposed monorail line that will start at Mikra Station and end at Makedonia International Airport. The plan is unlikely to be realised as an extension of the metro to the airport is preferred.
  • MCH Skybus, Herning, Denmark - MCH's 2025 vision includes a monorail system between the exhibition centre and the town centre.[33]
  • Rzeszów, length 7km and 14km

Oceania
  • Brisbane Airport Monorail[34]
  • Nelson City Monorail[35]

Decommissioned or cancelled

Americas

Brazil
  • Rio de Janeiro had a private monorail that linked Barra Shopping mall to its parking lot. Only one part of the track and the platform still remain, in the parking lot (second floor, behind the Fnac dome).
  • The Poços de Caldas Monorail was the very first monorail system in Brazil. It operated for 9 years when it went privatized and closed by its buyer. Today the system remains dead. [36]

Canada

United States
  • The Boynton Bicycle Railroad was a monorail on Long Island, New York, which ran on a single load-bearing rail at ground level with a wooden overhead stabilising rail engaged by a pair of horizontally opposed wheels.
  • Busch Gardens Tampa Bay had a monorail, the Veldt Monorail. It shut down in 1999.
  • Busch Gardens Williamsburg had a monorail, Eagle One, that connected the theme park with the nearby Anheuser-Busch brewery. Park visitors could tour the brewery and return via monorail. Eagle One was dismantled in the 1990s.
  • Busch Gardens California also had a monorail for the brewery tour. It was dismantled upon park closing however the supports still exist to support brewery piping.
  • Carowinds operated the Carowinds Monorail from 1973 through 1994.[39]
  • The Centennial Monorail was demonstrated at the Centennial International Exhibition of 1876, which was held in Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
  • The Epsom Salts Monorail was "the fastest moving monorail in the world" when it was built from 1922 to 1924 by Thomas Wright, a florist from Los Angeles, who had discovered magnesium salts southwest of Death Valley.
  • Fairlane Town Center in Dearborn, Michigan (outside of Detroit) had a shuttle monorail that connected to the Dearborn Hyatt Regency Hotel to the Fairlane shopping mall.
  • HemisFair '68 had a monorail that carried visitors around the pavilions during the six-month event. Over 1 million riders[40] used the monorail, which was designed by Universal Design, Ltd. A collision between two trains on September 15, 1968 resulted in one death and 48 injuries.
  • Geauga Lake operated a monorail from 1969-2006, named the Bel-Aire Express
  • Jetrail, a suspended monorail, was the world's first fully automated monorail system during operation at Dallas Love Field (1969–1974)
  • The Trailblazer suspended monorail ran from October 1956 until 1964 at Fair Park in Dallas, Texas. The single monorail car was used in Houston for a demonstration prior to its relocation to the State Fair of Texas.[41]
  • Kings Dominion near Richmond, Virginia had a monorail as the conveyance for visitors to its Lion Country Safari attraction, which was removed after the 1993 season.
  • State Fair of Oklahoma Monorail, Oklahoma City (1964–2005)
  • The Pelham Park and City Island Railroad in the Bronx, New York operated a short-lived monorail system in 1910. It ceased operation after an accident.
  • The Philadelphia Zoo had a monorail in the 1970s and 1980s, but was discontinued in the 1990s.
  • Miami Seaquarium Spacerail, Miami Seaquarium (1963–1991)
  • The Wgasa Bush Line at the San Diego Wild Animal Park near Escondido, California was shut down in March 2007.
  • Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in Queens, New York had a monorail during the 1964 New York World's Fair. It was a proof of concept with only one station. It was sponsored by American Machine and Foundry.
  • Jungle Jim's International Grocery Store near Cincinnati, Ohio maintained a monorail circulator purchased from Kings Island Theme Park. However, plans are in motion to bring the monorail back online in the future to shuttle people from the grocery store's hotel to the store.
  • Six Flags Magic Mountain operated a monorail since the park's opening in 1971 and shut down several years ago due to lack of parts.
  • Fairplex operated a monorail built by the American Crane and Hoist company. The middle 90s saw a new station and new cars built by Arrow Dynamics. The new cars were far heavier than the original and caused it to last only a couple of years more until it was dismantled.
  • Santa's Village in Skyforest had another American Crane and Hoist monorail that shut down when the park went defunct.
  • The Hotchkiss Bicycle Railroad ran from Smithville to Mount Holly, New Jersey from 1892 to 1897
  • The Minnesota Zoo operated a monorail around the grounds of its Apple Valley, Minnesota site from 1979 until 2013.[42]

Asia

Hong Kong

India

Iran

Indonesia
  • Jakarta Monorail, Jakarta Jakarta Monorail cancelled in 2015 because the Greater Jakarta LRT is starting to make the project.
  • TRS Monorail, Surabaya Taman Remaja Surabaya Monorail is closed 'cause has been replaced by other Surabaya Theme Parks.
  • THR Sriwedari Monorail, Surakarta Taman Hiburan Rakyat Sriwedari Monorail closed and replaced by Solo Theme Parks.

Japan

Malaysia

Singapore

Thailand
  • Fashion Island Monorail, Bangkok, Thailand. Short indoor amusement park monorail in Fashion Island shopping center. Decommissioned due to an accident that killed 2 riders.
  • Tuk-Tuk Monorail, Bangkok. Half indoor-outdoor monorail tour operated between LeoLand amusement park and the water park. The track survives in the 6th floor of Central City Bang Na.

Europe

Oceania
Sydney Monorail
A monorail train at World Expo 88
  • Brisbane, Queensland had a Von Roll Type II monorail built for World Expo '88. Four sets, consisting of nine carriages each, operated in a continuous loop throughout the Expo site. A single train set and some track was sold to Sea World, Gold Coast, in 1989 for expansion of its monorail system. The remainder of the sets and track were bought back by Von Roll.
  • Oasis Shopping Centre, Broadbeach, Queensland ran between the shopping centre and Conrad Jupiters Casino. The Von Roll Mark III monorail, owned by the Oasis Shopping Centre, consisted of two 4-carriage trains. Two spare carriages that were removed when the system switched from 5-carriage to 4-carriage trains were also kept with the two trains. Most components were original to the Oasis Monorail, but some were sourced from the UK Merry Hill Shopping Centre's former monorail that closed in 1993. As of July, 2017, most of the monorail system has been removed (closed on 29 January 2017).[51]

See also

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