On a side note, it's hard to avoid thinking that Bennie was inspired to create his railplane by a ride installed in Kelvingrove Park for the 1911 Glasgow International Exhbition consisting of airship-shaped gondolas flying across the River Kelvin suspended below an aerial track.
A 119 metre long experimental track was built in Milngavie in 1929 (on the current site of Kelvin Timber). While a fully operational line was proposed between Glasgow and Edinburgh, it failed to attract enough financial backing and in 1937 Bennie was declared bankrupt.
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This plaque on Main Street in Milngavie on the outskirts of Glasgow marks the site of George Bennie's remarkable, but experimental, Railplane.
Invented in the 1920s, this was a zeppelin-shaped carriage suspended from an overhead track and powered by propellers. The aim was to create a two-tier railway with slower freight trains using the ground level track, with faster passenger railplanes flying above them.
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Die brandneue Flexity Tram "Theodora" in Graz.
Die erste eingesetzte Garnitur ist nach Theodora Acham benannt, die gemeinsam mit ihrer Kollegin Inge Steiner im Jahr 1988 die ersten Straßenbahnfahrerinnen der Grazer Linien waren.
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With 79m below ground, Washington Park station is the deepest tansit station in North America. It opened in September 1998 as part of the Westside MAX extension to Beaverton and Hillsboro.
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Railway infrastructure reportedly struck by Ukrainian drones in occupied Luhansk, Donetsk oblasts
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