Why We Lost The World's Only Double-Sided Monorail

What's better than a train that only needs one rail? YES, TWO TRAINS THAT ONLY NEED ONE RAIL. In 1973, West Germany launched a new monorail where vehicles ran above and below the same rail at the same time, in opposite directions. It remains unique to this day. But why would you want to do that? And what happened to it? To find out more, I travelled to a muddy field in Germany's industrial Ruhr Valley area... INSTA - https://www.instagram.com/the.tim.traveller TWIT - https://twitter.com/TheTimTraveller FACE - https://www.facebook.com/TheTimTraveller/ MORE INFO & ARCHIVE FOOTAGE http://www.gleismann.de/15.cabinentaxi/start.html - Gleismannsbahnhof, an incredible website with every detail you would ever want about the Cabinentaxi (in German) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8DP50YQ-Tc - Early promotional film for the Cabinentaxi, 1974 (in German) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERdF0FK-2io - Later promotional film, date unknown but most likely 1976/7 (in English) IMAGE CREDITS Loewe Opta television by Vogler - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Loewe_Opta_P3316.jpg Hamburg Rathaus by Aliasdoobs - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rathaus_Hbg.jpg Red front door by John Escudero - https://www.pexels.com/photo/a-red-door-in-a-brick-wall-9357472/