Monorails of the 19th Century
Adrian S. Garner
288 pages. 275x215mm. Printed on gloss art paper, casebound with printed board covers.
ISBN13 : 9781899889570
£24.99
CONTENTS
Acknowledgements page 8
Notes page 9
Introduction page 11
Chapter 1 : Henry Robinson Palmer: Inventor of the first recorded monorail page 13
Royal Navy Victualling Yard Railway, Deptford, England page 13
Promotion in London, England page 13
Mr Gibb's Brickworks Railway, Cheshunt, England page 13
Proposed Tunbridge Wells, Snodland and Edenbridge Suspension Railway, England page 16
Wuppertal proposal, Germany page 17
Proposed line joining the City of New Orleans and Washington D.C., USA page 17
Hanging gates at the London Docks, England page 17
Raincy to Montfermeil Railway, France page 23
Place du Roi de Rome demonstration, Paris, France page 24
Buckhurst Hill trial, England and the Lisbon Steam Tramways debacle, Portugal page 26
Demonstration at Mr Addis's ironworks at Tannah, India page 32
Callian Bunder to Callian and Mhyjee Fair Railways, India page 32 Chapter 4 : The return of the 'A' frame page 35
Alexandretta to Alleppo Railway, Syria page 37
Whitehall Place, Westminster and the Crystal Palace, near Croydon demonstrations, England page 37
Chapter 5 : Emmor Crew's prismoidal railways page 39
Locomotive & test track, Gloucester City, New Jersey & Chestnut Street Rink, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA page 39
Sonoma Valley Railroad, California, USA page 40
Chapter 6 : The monorails of General Roy Stone page 43
Phoenixville demonstration, Pennsylvania, USA page 43
Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition monorail page 44
Bradford & Foster Brook Railway, Pennsylvania, USA page 49
+ The route and track page 51
+ Locomotives and rolling stock page 53
Chapter 8 : The Lartigue monorails (1) page 67
Agricultural lines in South Oran, Algeria & Tunisia page 67
Exhibition lines page 68
Ria Copper Mines Railway, Pyrenees Orientales, near Perpignan, France page 71
Tothill Fields demonstration, England page 72
+ The portable line - The steam hauled line page 72
+ The track work page 74
+ The locomotive page 75
+ The carriages - Proposals page 76
Listowel & Ballybunion Railway, Ireland page 81
+ Description of the line page 84
+ Operation page 85
+ Track, crossing points and signalling page 89
+ Locomotives page 95
+ Rolling stock - Vehicle construction, central frame and wheels page 100
+ Passenger carriages page 101
+ Guards vans - Platform carriages with steps - Horse box - Wagons page 106
+ Sand wagons page 109
Chapter 9 : The Lartigue monorails (2) page 117
W Feurs to Panissières Railway, France page 117
+ Description of the line page 123
+ Track and signalling page 125
+ Locomotives page 126
+ Rolling stock page 128
Chilecito to Famatina Railway, Argentina page 132
Proposals for the French colonies, including Guadaloupe, and the Kalka to Simla line in India page 132
Brussels Exhibition monorail page 132
+ The site and track page 138
+ The carriage page 139
Liverpool to Manchester proposal, England page 148
+ The technical design page 150
Other Proposals
+ London to Brighton proposal, England page 154
+ Edinburgh to Glasgow proposal, Scotland page 154
+ Coney Island proposal, New York, USA page 154
Chapter 10 : Captain Meigs elevated monorail page 159
Meigs' proposals for Boston, Massachusetts, USA page 159
Cambridge demonstration line page 160
Revised Boston proposals page 162
Meigs' last attempt at an elevated monorail for Boston page 165
Proposals for London, England, Paris, France and Chicago, USA page 167
+ Technical details – Track page 168
+ Trucks or 'bogies' page 169
+ Locomotives page 170
+ Carriage page 171
Chapter 11 : The Enos railways: The first suspended electric monorails page 175
New England, USA, proposals page 175
Trial line at Greenville, New Jersey, USA page 176
South St. Paul Rapid Transit Railway, Minnesota, USA page 177
+ The St. Paul track and carriage page 178
Chapter 12 : The Boynton bicycle railroads page 185
Sea Beach and Brighton Railroad, Coney Island, New York, USA page 187
+ The track page 189
+ Locomotives page 190
+ Carriages page 193
Long Island Boynton Bicycle Railroad, New York, USA page 195
+ The track page 200
+ The electric carriage page 201
Eben Moody Boynton's subsequent proposals page 203
Chapter 13 : Zipernowski's balancing tram page 207
+ The track page 208
+ The tramcar page 209
Chapter 14 : More systems of the 1890s page 213
National Unicycle Elevated Railway Company, St. Louis, Missouri, USA page 213
Cienega Lime and Marble Quarry Railroad, California, USA page 214
* Captain Lina Beecher's monorails page 217
Waterport Electric Power & Railway, New York, State, USA page 218
Ontario Southern Railway, Ontario, Canada page 219
Centrifugal Cycle Railway, Coney Island, USA page 220
Flangless Railway Corporation, Florida, USA page 221
* Caillet' system page 222
Sanitary Station at Moise Wells, Suez, Egypt page 224
Canvey Island tramway, Essex, UK page 224
Loxton Farm, Renmark, South Australia page 226
* Ewing's system page 226
Monorail tramway in Madras (now Chennai) page 227
Sirhind to Morinda monorail page 229
Patiala to Sunam monorail page 230
Patiala State monorails: Locomotives and vehicles page 231
Morinoa to Karar monorail page 232
Luzira to Kampala monorail, Uganda page 232
* Hotchkiss bicycle railways page 234
Mount Holly to Smithville, New Jersey, USA page 234
US pleasure lines page 236
British pleasure lines page 236
+ Track and vehicle design page 238
* Volderauer & Brackebusch's mountain monorail, Germany page 238
* Kottgen's canal barge towing railway, Finlow Canal, Germany page 239
Chapter 15 : Langen's 'Schwebebahn' or swinging railway page 243
Trial lines at Deutz, Germany page 243
Wuppertal Schwebebahn, Germany page 244
+ Operation page 250
+ The monorail track structure page 251
+ Stations page 254
+ Signalling page 255
+ Power Supply page 255
+ Carriages page 256
Light monorail trials, Deutz, Germany page 261
Paris Exposition demonstration, Vincennes, France page 262
Loschwitz Schwebebahn, Germany page 263
Proposals for Hamburg and Berlin, Germany page 264
Chapter 16 : Proposals plain and exotic page 267
Appendices