Walt Disney World Monorail System
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The Walt Disney World Monorail System is a public transit monorail in operation at the Walt Disney World Resort in Bay Lake, Florida, near Orlando. The resort operates twelve Mark VI monorail trains on three lines of service.[3][4][5] The monorail system opened in 1971 with two routes (Magic Kingdom: Resort and Express) and with Mark IV monorail trains. It was expanded to three lines (Magic Kingdom: Resort and Express, plus Epcot) in 1982, and the rolling stock was updated to Mark VI trains in 1989.[3]
Walt Disney World Monorail System | |
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Overview | |
Owner | The Walt Disney Company |
Locale | Walt Disney World |
Transit type | Straddle-beam Monorail |
Number of lines | 3 |
Number of stations | 6 |
Daily ridership | 150,000+[1] |
Annual ridership | ~50,000,000 |
Website | Disney Monorail Transportation |
Operation | |
Began operation | October 1, 1971; 52 years ago (1971-10-01) |
Operator(s) | Disney Transport |
Number of vehicles | 12 |
Train length | 203.5 ft (62.0 m) |
Technical | |
System length | 14.7 mi (23.7 km)[2] |
Electrification | Third rail, 600 V DC |
Average speed | 30 mph (48 km/h) |
Top speed | 40 mph (64 km/h) |
As of 2016[update], the system was one of the most heavily used monorail systems in the world, with over 150,000 daily riders.[1][6] It is surpassed by the Tokyo Monorail in Tokyo, Japan, which has over 300,000 daily riders;[7] and by the monorail system run by Chongqing Rail Transit in Chongqing, China, which has over 900,000 daily riders on Line 2 and Line 3 combined.[8] The Walt Disney World system nevertheless remains one of the most famous monorails, along with the Disneyland Monorail System at Disneyland in Anaheim, CA.