Bennie Railplane
Introduction
This was a rapid passenger system proposed by George Bennie to the London and North Eastern Railway. A car (bullet shaped with a propellor at each end) ran on an elevated trackway. The demonstration track was built over the Burnbrae branch of the Glasgow and Milngavie Junction Railway. The demonstration track was scrapped after the Second World War.
Dates
| 08/07/1930 | Bennie Railplane
Glasgow and Milngavie Junction Railway Test track opened above the Burnbrae Goods branch of the Milngavie line. |
| / /1956 | Bennie Railplane Glasgow and Milngavie Junction Railway Test track scrapped. |
Locations along the line
These locations are along the line.
This was a 426 ft demonstration structure built over the Burnbrae Goods line near Milngavie. A well appointed torpedo shaped 'car', with a propeller at each end (built by William Beardmore), was suspended from a single rail held up by a series of pylons on a west-east alignment at a height of 80 ft over the conventional railway. Access to the car was from a platform on the structure at ...
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John Furnevel 15/03/2002
