Bennie Railplane

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The Bennie Railplane was an early form of monorail, invented by George Bennie (1891–1957), which moved along an overhead rail by way of propellers. A prototype ran over a 130-yard (120 m) line at Milngavie near Glasgow in the 1930s, but Bennie was never able to secure funding for further development and went bankrupt in 1937. The line was demolished for scrap in the 1950s.

[edit] Further reading

• Thwaite, Malcolm (2005). "The George Bennie Railplane and Hugh Fraser Airrail Systems of Transport". Transactions of the Newcomen Society, 75(1):37-84. ISSN 03720187.
• Black, William B. The Bennie Railplane. East Dunbartonshire Council

[edit] External links

• The George Bennie Airspeed Railway, Railways of Britain
• George Bennie Railtrack, Baldernock Parish
• The Bennie Railplane, Gear Wheels Online Motoring Magazine
• Railplane newsreel footage at British Pathe (search for "railplane")
• Film of test run (BBC Scotland).
• http://www.newcomen.com/rolt.htm