The Hitachi Monorail System refers to the family of

monorail A monorail is a Rail transport, railway in which the track consists of a single rail or beam. Colloquially, the term "monorail" is often used to describe any form of elevated rail or people mover. More accurately, the term refers to the style ...

s offered by

Hitachi Rail Hitachi, Ltd. Railway Systems Business Unit, Trade name, trading as Hitachi Rail, is the rolling stock and railway signalling manufacturing division of Hitachi outside Japan. History Hitachi's rail division before global expansion After the ...

List of notable Hitachi monorails

Hitachi's designs are

ALWEG Alweg was a transportation company based in Germany known for pioneering straddle-beam monorails. History Alweg was founded by Sweden, Swedish industrial magnate Dr. Axel Wenner-Gren, Axel Lennart Wenner-Gren in January 1953 as Alweg-Forsch ...

-based, and are available in three configurations:Monorail Delivery Records : HITACHI
All Hitachi trains except those on Japan's oldest operational monorail have floors entirely above all the wheels.

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* Kitakyushu Monorail, opened 1984 * Osaka Monorail, opened 1990 * Tama Toshi Monorail Line, opened 1998 *

Chongqing Rail Transit The Chongqing Rail Transit (branded as CRT; also known as Chongqing Metro) is the rapid transit system in the city of Chongqing, China. In operation since 2005, it serves the transportation needs of the city's main business and entertainment ...

( Line 2 & Line 3), opened 2005 & 2011 ( CRRC Changchun Railway Vehicles also took part in the project) * Panama Metro (Line 3), opening 2027-2028

Standard

Tokyo Monorail The , officially the , is a straddle-beam, Alweg-type monorail line in Tokyo, Japan. It is an airport rail link that connects Haneda Airport, Tokyo International Airport (Haneda) to Tokyo's Ōta, Tokyo, Ōta, Shinagawa, and Minato, Tokyo, Minato ...

, opened 1964 *

Okinawa Urban Monorail The , also known as , is a monorail line serving the cities of Naha, Okinawa, Naha and Urasoe, Okinawa Prefecture, Okinawa, Japan. Operated by , it opened on 10 August 2003, and is the only public rail system in Okinawa Prefecture. Yui Rail is t ...

, opened 2003 *

Palm Jumeirah Monorail The Palm Monorail is a monorail line on the Palm Jumeirah island in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It is operated by the UK-based Serco. The monorail connects the Palm Jumeirah to the mainland, with a planned further extension to the Red Line o ...

, (Dubai, United Arab Emirates) opened April 2009 * Daegu Metro Line 3, (Daegu, South Korea) opened April 2015 (prototype set only, remaining 27 built by

Woojin Industrial Systems Woojin Industrial Systems () is a South Korean manufacturer of rolling stock including Rapid transit, metro, electric bus, people mover, peoplemover and monorail vehicles. Its main business is the development of Rolling stock, rolling stocks an ...

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* Sentosa Express (Sentosa, Singapore), opened 2007

Picture gallery

File:Model 1000 of Tokyo-Monorail.jpg,

File:Kitakyushu monorail.jpg, Kitakyushu Monorail File:OsakaMonorail1000Series01.jpg, Osaka Monorail File:Tama monorail.jpg, Tama Toshi Monorail Line File:Omoromachi Station exterior with train 20070102.jpg,

File:SentosaExpressTrain-Sentosa-20060530.jpg, Sentosa Express File:Dubai Monorail 01.jpg,

File:Daegu Monorail.jpg, Daegu Metro Line 3

References

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