{"id":8232,"date":"2024-08-27T01:29:02","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T01:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/sydney-monorail-2\/"},"modified":"2024-08-27T01:29:02","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T01:29:02","slug":"sydney-monorail-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/sydney-monorail-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sydney Monorail (2)"},"content":{"rendered":"
Particular Problem with Parking<\/span><\/p>\n In this case a whole girder has to move. Here is an example of such a contrivance on a Japanese monorail<\/p>\n A chunk of track has to move to connect with the turnout route. Here it is in video.<\/p>\n The Sydney system was just one “circle” of track but with no junctions. Nevertheless it was necessary to remove trains from the “circle” for maintenance or to tuck them up for the night.<\/p><\/div>\n … and a view out of the back window having passed the depot.<\/p>\n The complex engineering beneath the “rail” is a traverser<\/span>.<\/p>\n That stretch of trackway, one train in length (apologies for the foreshortening), can trundle sideways …<\/p>\n … and the train posed thereupon can then park in a siding alongside all the others.<\/p><\/div>\n No doubt they did their job well despite their crude appearance.<\/p><\/div>\n … then a ladder would do. But some of the sections were higher to pass over road junctions. Here a so-called “cherry picker” was called in.<\/p>\n It does appear that the reliability of the system was less than would have been expected.<\/p><\/div>\n <\/p><\/div>\n … then the metalwork was lowered to the ground.<\/p>\n Some looked quite spooky!<\/p>\n Stations were left suspended in mid air and served by nothingness.<\/p>\n Indeed, the stations were the last to go!<\/p>\n Soon, Sydney’s splendid above the floor but fatally flawed monorail was no more.<\/p><\/div>\n Remember those girders, removed by flame and crane? Above we see them in a warehouse ready for recycling.<\/p><\/div>\n … and the monorail girders formed an ideal basis for an extended bridge.<\/p>\n The bridge, appropriately, is over part of the Sydney Metro!<\/p><\/div>\n