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Who built the first monorail?

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15y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

The city of Wuppertal in Germany had the first commercial public transportation system based on a monorail.

The Wuppertaler Schwebebahn has been in operation since 1901 transporting over 70,000 passengers per day.

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