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• - Opening in 2003 with 5km and 5 stations.
  
• - Japan's first suspended monorail, built in 1970, 6.6km, 8 stations.
  
• - Osaka's monorail operating since 1990, 23.8km, 16 stations.
  
• - Japan's first urban monorail, operating since 1964, 16.9km, 10 stations.
  
• - Proposed large, collective, suspended, air pressure driven monorail, from England. Descriptions, static and animated diagrams, precedents, social aspects/impact.
  
• - Originally opened in 1995, this system will be expanded to 6km in 2004.
  
• - Charleston, SC. System 21 "monobeam".
  
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• - Seattle's original monorail, built in 1962 for the World's Fair, still operating daily on its one-mile track.
  
• - Makes S.L. Series Monorail: large, collective, top mount, straddle-beam vehicles. Attractive look. Description, photographs, contact.
  
• - Proposed large, collective, suspended monorail from Florida. Descriptions, diagrams, book, news, consulting, TRDA grant.
  
• - A suspended monorail based on the Safege design.
  
• - History of the ALWEG monorail system.
  
• - Engineering firm offering the HighRoad Monorail System: 1 beam, 2-way traffic.
  
• - Makes FlyWay automated beamcarried traffic, of Sweden. Medium and large, collective, suspended vehicles, lower to the ground to avoid any need to build stations. Many descriptions, images, links. English, Svenska.
  
• - Operating since 2003, 8.6km, 11 stations.
  
• - World's longest suspended monorail, built in 1988, 15.5km, 18 stations.
  
• - Makes large, collective, suspended, monorail train system, tracks supported by widely spaced cable suspension. Descriptions, photos, diagrams, video, history, installations, news, contacts, contacts.
  
• - Operating just outside Tokyo since 1997, 16km, 19 stations.
  
• - Some pictures of Disneyland monorails.