Germany News » Wuppertal News Germany » Wuppertal » Places: When Germany built a flying train 125 years ago, a city coalesced beneath it. It has moved royalty, commuters and tourists—and one elephant—ever since
News channel or source: https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/when-germany-built-a-flying-train-125-years-ago-a-city-coalesced-beneath-it-it-has-moved-royalty-commuters-and-tourists-and-one-elephant-ever-since/ar-AA27uFQc
Published on: Wednesday 08 July 2026
On a warm summer morning, I find myself in Wuppertal, an industrial city in western Germany’s North Rhine-Westphalia. There isn’t much on my agenda for the day, just one simple thing—riding a train.
News Germany » Wuppertal » Places: The German city with an incredible upside down railway
News channel or source: https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/wuppertal-schwebebahn-suspension-railway-germany
Published on: Sunday 15 May 2022
Suspension railways today seem like an anachronism – a 19th-century vision of what the future of transport would look like. By the year 2022, surely we would all be commuting to work on upside down ...