MONORAIL IN TURIN
Biggest In World The world’s biggest monorail train system is to be found in operation at the exhibition commemorating the unification of Italy in Turin. There, for Is a ticket, visitors can board the train and cross the mile-wide exhibition grounds in less than two minutes. The three section monorail train carries 200 passengers and is capable of 60 miles an hour. The track was prefabricated in 65ft sections of reinforced concrete, and it encircles the lakes, gardens and pavilions of the exhibition at a height of 20ft, supported at intervals by concrete pylons. There are smaller versions of the Turin monorail in Disneyland, in the United States, and also in Germany and Japan. However, the Turin monorail system is reported to have excited much interest among engineers throughout the world, and has been the subject of a study by Japanese technicians from the municipal administration of Tokyo.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29745, 12 February 1962, Page 9
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