M Bahn Berlin April 1990

Often thought of as a 'magnetic levitation' transport was the (West) Berlin, Germany, M-Bahn. This system used a linear synchronous motor in the guideway which reacted with permanent magnets on the vehicles to provide 85% of the support as well as propel the trains. The vehicles were also fitted with small lateral and vertical rollers which provided 15% of the support as well as helping keep the vehicle within preset lateral limits.

Very much experimental in nature there were just three stations along a 1.6 km route which took the train very close to the former division between the Eastern and Western sectors of the city.

This installation ceased operating in the early 1990's - it was partially built over a closed section of the former U-Bahn and with Berlins' re-unification the route was needed to allow the U-Bahn to be reopened.

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This video includes views of all three stations (Gleisdreieck - where the M-Bahn took over a [then] disused U-Bahn station platform, Berburger Str. and Kemperplatz) plus the Berlin wall, which 5 months after its breaching had already been partly demolished.

The M-Bahn also features on my website, on a page which looks at Monorails, Maglevs and 'Cabin' Transports.

http://citytransport.info/Monorail.htm

Further indformation & weblinks about the M-Bahn can also be found at the free online "Wikipedia" encyclopædia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-Bahn
(English language).

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-Bahn
(German language).

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[fabius1a]

Thanks for this clip!

Very good quality for that days!

I'm born in West-Berlin in 1970 and remember this train very well.

Was an very interesting system!

A pity that they had to wreck it down for the reopening of the U-Bahn.

Nowadays you don't see anything left of this modern transport system.

Please delete all comments of "kackworschharry" and the answers to his comments.

They have absolutely nothing to do with your clip!

[solayagimkasiniyor]

gabs da mal nicht den "polenmarkt"? da konnte man immer zlotys kaufen, in der größe eines 1-DM stücks :o)

[lazyfreedom98]

Yellow above Blue ( ? ) . . . Germany Lost Wars.

[dickeralle]

Beim Gleisdreieck fährt doch heute die Nord-Süd-Fernbahn her!

[dickeralle]

@mymovie3 Because a former metro line was rebuilt on this section from 1992

[UndergroundBerlin]

Really great footage! Thanks for that! The M-Bahn had quite a big story ... Too bad it's gone now, would have definitiely been something spectacular for Germany even today.

[TobiasKaiserBerlin]

@stad1982: ja, unglaublich!

[TobiasKaiserBerlin]

krass die Aufnahmen von der Mauer /.13 bis 7:50 - das war am Potsdamer Platz, oder?

[SittingMooseShaman]

...I am greately impressed by the attention paid the publics' safety. The 'elevator' doors and framed-glass wall separating the passengers on the platform from the operating system is so practical I am amazed such isn't required the world-over for the publics' safety in subway and other set/track systems! Wide yellow lines cannot defy gravitys' and inertias' effect on a hapless traveller... Kudos. Very well done!

[siemenstraffic]

1:52 Die Ludof's Klingel!!!!

[eltfell]

Wo liegen hier die Vorzüge gegenüber der Schwebebahn (Einschienige Hängebahn System Eugen Langen)?

[AktivAgressiv]

@kackworschharry ah, und wie gehts dir in letzter zeit? mal wieder ordentlich abgeworschtet? ich würde gern mehr erfahren..