Monorail tram!
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Monorail tram!
Tram - on rubber tyres - overhead power - and a single central guide rail.
Preculiarly French? - and not dissimilar to the Paris Metro, where I remember trains arriving with little more than a rubbery swish.
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Re: Monorail tram!
What an excellent idea
A perfect solution for Milton Keynes and an end to horrid, noisy and smelly old diesel buses...
Bring it on
The sooner the better!

Bring it on

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Re: Monorail tram!
Never seen one of those, its a good idea from the noise point of view but not so for power efficiency. Looks smart though.
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Re: Monorail tram!
Seems not dissimilar to the inter-gate shuttle train that runs at Paris airport. On it for the first time last week, single thing that staggered me the most - the almost Tesla-like rate at which the thing took off from the platform...
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Re: Monorail tram!
Electric acceleration can be frankly quite staggering...
Those new Class 350 EMUs that run between Milton Keynes and Euston have a pretty impressive turn of acceleration when they take off from a station... And they brake pretty impressively too...
I was amazed the first time I rode one...