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The suspension railway – the steel-hard dragon
Since its official launch in March 1901, the “steel-hard dragon” (quote from Else Lasker-Schüler) has connected the east and west of Wuppertal. Since then, the people of Wuppertal have been greeting “from the city where the buses fly” and attract hundreds of thousands of foreign guests every year. More than 1.5 billion people have already floated through the valley of the Wupper with the suspension railway.
The suspension railway – congestion-free floating
The people of Wuppertal themselves love their suspension railway as a fast, congestion-free and indispensable means of transport through the valley axis. And the suspension railway is also weatherproof: rain and snow don’t bother it. Every day, 85,000 passengers use the fast route over heads and roads – at a maximum speed of 60 kilometres per hour.
For the most part, the line runs over the Wupper, but between Sonnborn’s main church and the Vohwinkel terminus, the suspension railway runs over the road. It crosses the A46 at the Sonnborner Kreuz and pushes very close to the houses on Kaiserstraße.
By the way, a journey between the two termini Oberbarmen and Vohwinkel takes about 30 minutes. There are a total of 20 stations along the 13.3-kilometre-long line – from the Art Nouveau Werther Brücke station to the modern Kluse glass construction, which opened in 1999.
The suspension railway map accompanies you from station to station and offers you tips on places of interest within easy reach of the respective stops.
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