Suspension Railway in Wuppertal Germany Schwebebahn hanging train in germany 2022

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suspension railway in Wuppertal Germany Schwebebahn. The suspension railway in Wuppertal(Germany) is the oldest electric elevated railway with hanging cars in the world and is a unique system. The Wuppertal Suspension Railway (called Schwebebahn in German) nowadays carries up to 82,000 passengers a day through the city. Designed by Eugen Langen to sell to the city of Berlin the installation of the suspension railway with elevated stations was built in Wuppertal Barmen, Elberfeld and Vohwinkel between 1897 and 1903; the first track opened in 1901. The suspension railway(Schwebebahn) is still in use today as a normal means of local public transport, moving 25 million passengers annually as of 2008. The suspension railway runs along a route of 13.3 kilometres (8.3 mi),