{"id":1756,"date":"2025-05-06T18:17:23","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T17:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/?p=1756"},"modified":"2025-05-06T18:17:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T17:17:23","slug":"dresden-danglebahn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/2025\/05\/06\/dresden-danglebahn\/","title":{"rendered":"Dresden Danglebahn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I was in Dresden over the bank holiday weekend, for the express purpose of visiting the Dresden Danglebahn, sorry, Schwebebahn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Schwebebahn are suspension railway, of which there are a few in Germany. There is the more famous Wuppertal Schwebebahn, which I visited in 2023 and there is the Dresden Schwebebahn, which is, in some ways, more interesting, being a suspension funicular railway (i.e. there are two lines with the carriage ascending being raised by the weight of the carriage descending).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One aspect of the system caught my eye, more on the basis of &#8216;that would never work in Ireland&#8217;. Shortly after leaving the lower station, the line crosses over a road. With no warning signs or gates, the carriage crosses this road at a height that would enable an accident in the form of a large road vehicle running into it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"731\" src=\"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/DR15453-1024x731.jpg\" alt=\"Dresden Schwebebahn road crossing.\" class=\"wp-image-1758\" srcset=\"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/DR15453-1024x731.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/DR15453-300x214.jpg 300w, http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/DR15453-768x549.jpg 768w, http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/DR15453.jpg 1050w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Dresden Schwebebahn road crossing. Copyright Ewan Duffy 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Were such a system in use in Ireland, I could see it being closed regularly due to vehicular strikes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was in Dresden over the bank holiday weekend, for the express purpose of visiting the Dresden Danglebahn, sorry, Schwebebahn. Schwebebahn are suspension railway, of which there are a few in Germany. There is the more famous Wuppertal Schwebebahn, which I visited in 2023 and there is the Dresden Schwebebahn, which is, in some ways, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1756"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1760,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756\/revisions\/1760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}