@@MKTTransportVideos It isn't " a recreation of a unique monorail system". It's a recreation of a "little-known monorail system", and it may be the only Lartigue monorail operating today. It was probably the first passenger-carrying monorail in the UK. Billy Butlin was aware of this, and carefully used the words 'Great Britain' when describing his own 'first'.
I love how it’s got a massive light and then teeny tiny windows to look out of.
Yeah I'm puzzled by the giant light. That doesn't seem to have been a thing on the original ones.
I am surprised to see this kind of trains 🚂 would love to see the couches as well 🚃🚃
I put a whole gallery up including photos of the coaches - see mkttransportphoto.smugmug.com
Absolute Magic...
Is it or was it ever a monorail since it clearly uses three rails?
That's what it was called at the time! I suppose it's really riding on the top rail, with the other two functioning as guide rails.
Very unusual but is is really a mono-rail? What might be the function of the two small rails at the bottom?
Yeah it stretches the definition but that's what it's called.
@@MKTTransportVideos Most monorails stretch the definition.
I'm gonna assume the locomotive with two boilers doesn't run on steam anymore but has a combustion engine built into it now?
A steam engine IS a 'combustion engine'.
Disappointed that it isn't a steam powered one
The Listowel and Ballybunion railway wasn't unique. It was the most famous Lartigue railway, but certainly not the only one.
It's unique today.
@@MKTTransportVideos It isn't " a recreation of a unique monorail system". It's a recreation of a "little-known monorail system", and it may be the only Lartigue monorail operating today.
It was probably the first passenger-carrying monorail in the UK. Billy Butlin was aware of this, and carefully used the words 'Great Britain' when describing his own 'first'.