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Can anyone identify this?
Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2003 4:31 am
by dforrest
Can anyone identify this?
answer to follow!
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Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2003 9:21 am
by alanhowat
Hello dforrest,
I believe it was a monorail that was constructed at Bearsden/Milngavie near Glasgow, during the 1930's.
Cheers,
Alan.
Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2003 9:55 am
by ianm42
very similar to what is still running in Wuppertal, Germany:
Click the image to zoom in
Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2003 10:08 am
by rwaceyw
alanhowat wrote:Hello dforrest,
I believe it was a monorail that was constructed at Bearsden/Milngavie near Glasgow, during the 1930's.
Cheers,
Alan.
Yeah, some LNER test momnorail thing, built over a conventional railway line
. Never really took off though.
David.
Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2003 11:07 am
by dukedog
It was called the Bennie Railplane, and was built in 1930.
Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2003 12:04 pm
by nightbeaver911
It was capable of 120mph!!! If that had took off imagine the speeds of a modern day version! Rail travel today would look very different indeed.
http://www.eastdunbarton.gov.uk/Web+Sit ... enDocument
Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2003 1:05 pm
by johndibben
It is in fact a supository inserter built for Pavarotti.
Value £199,999 but yours for a tenor
Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2003 2:52 pm
by martinhodgson
there was an article about it in the RM years ago... I remeber they just took the 'buffer' at one end off and ran the train off the end when they demolished it
Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2003 3:20 pm
by dforrest
Too easy! THere also is some interesting information here:
http://mikes.railhistory.railfan.net/r069.html
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Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2003 7:52 pm
by ianmacmillan
It looks like one of Eastfield's N2s to me.
(I'm only interested in trains.)
Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2003 9:30 pm
by dforrest
ianmacmillan wrote:It looks like one of Eastfield's N2s to me.
(I'm only interested in trains.)
Now that's the answer I was waiting for. Give the man the prize!
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Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2003 1:42 pm
by jp4712
http://dewi.ca/trains/bennie/ is a rather good site about it also.
Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2003 3:00 am
by saddletank
johndibben wrote:It is in fact a supository inserter built for Pavarotti.
Value £199,999 but yours for a tenor
Given that there are windows at the front, it must be a crew-operated suppository inserter. Now there's a job you don't come across very often.
Overhead Streamlined Trains
Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2003 9:10 am
by jbilton
This looks the business...anyone able to model one?
Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2003 10:53 am
by nwallace
