what the FUCK. what THE FUCK IS THAT

and there’s a modern version you can GO ON???

sign me up I love it what the express hell

It looks like someone did unethical breeding practises to a regular train. It's a sickly beast.

Fun fact they had to balance the coaches and wagons with passengers and goods for them to be able to run properly

They had to include a glorified portable footbridge as part of the train so they could direct passengers to use both sides so it didn't tip over

my day just keeps getting better

@steelblue8 paging you on this one check this out

Oh yes I love this thing! It was originally designed for desert usage, the A-frame monorail was like that to allow sand to blow through and make construction cheaper. They built one in Ireland because the Irish wanted a railway and the British didn’t think they deserved it, so they got this shitty thing instead. The carriages did indeed have to be kept balanced, the trains were slow, and reportedly local schoolchildren would often put soap on the singular rail, making the whole thing useless in the process.

For a mildly better but still bizarre steam monorail, check out the Boynton Bicycle, which ran half-hourly trains for a few years and was designed to allow one railway to function as 2! It was mildly more successfully than the listowel and ballybunion, though still just. Not worth it compared to a regular ol railway.