Bucket list day - and with a cherry on top!

[whole diary]

[grahame]

Probably quite easy to work out where I was, but what was the cherry?

[rogerpatenall]

Wuppertal but I don't know about the cherry.
For me, the cherry is that the Schweberbahn - although well modernised - fascinates me. It still uses, unmodified, the technology of 125 years ago when first opened. I love it.

[chuffed]

The people leaving the station in the last photo,looked as if they had been hanging around for quite a long time.....

[grahame]

Wuppertal but I don't know about the cherry.
For me, the cherry is that the Schweberbahn - although well modernised - fascinates me. It still uses, unmodified, the technology of 125 years ago when first opened. I love it.

My extra was watching a diesel bus convert to an electric trolley bus in about 30 seconds.  Ideal for places like Bath where they don't want the city centre sullied with overhead wires, but have steep hills that the trolley bus would be ideal for.

[grahame]

The thing that struck me about the Schwebebahn is that it really work well in modern times too.  A service running every 4 minutes, all services busy - approaching the full and standing level in the busy parts of the route.  Acceleration is good, the carriages stable (hardly any sway) and passengers travel above the river and above the busy streets clear of the congestion. I used the staircases, but I saw lifts at most stations and I think they are everywhere.  To the residents of Wuppertal, it's just a regular element in their public transport network.

As "real" solutions for Bath? A service from Newbridge Park and Ride to Batheaston perhaps, spanning the river all the way with only a few minor issues ;-) at places like Pultney Bridge. And buses running on diesel or battery power in the precious central streets, with electric trolley running up to the University, Odd Down, Landsdown.  In reallity, probably too late for Bath - you may get objections to all those legs over the river.  But Hotwells to Brislington - now is THAT an opportunity?

 

[Electric train]

The thing that struck me about the Schwebebahn is that it really work well in modern times too.  A service running every 4 minutes, all services busy - approaching the full and standing level in the busy parts of the route.  Acceleration is good, the carriages stable (hardly any sway) and passengers travel above the river and above the busy streets clear of the congestion. I used the staircases, but I saw lifts at most stations and I think they are everywhere.  To the residents of Wuppertal, it's just a regular element in their public transport network.

As "real" solutions for Bath? A service from Newbridge Park and Ride to Batheaston perhaps, spanning the river all the way with only a few minor issues ;-) at places like Pultney Bridge. And buses running on diesel or battery power in the precious central streets, with electric trolley running up to the University, Odd Down, Landsdown.  In reallity, probably too late for Bath - you may get objections to all those legs over the river.  But Hotwells to Brislington - now is THAT an opportunity?

 

If it had been built in Bath 100 years ago, today we would class it as heritage slap a grade 1* listing on and don't you dare touch it, if it was presented today in Bath as a transport solution it would be classed as a hideous monstrosity, out of keeping with the grade listing of the city and questions would be asked in Parliament

[Bob_Blakey]

I'm going to hazard a guess at the opportunity to take a trip on the historic tram at the Bergische Museumsbahnen.

[grahame]

I'm going to hazard a guess at the opportunity to take a trip on the historic tram at the Bergische Museumsbahnen.

Actually not - next time perhaps?