Date: 27/02/2022

It would have been among the crowning engineering achievements of the early 20th century, but the plan to construct a high speed monorail between Edinburgh and Glasgow never truly got off the ground.

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The forgotten plan to connect Edinburgh and Glasgow by high-speed monorail

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It would have been among the crowning engineering achievements of the early 20th century, but the plan to construct a high speed monorail between Edinburgh and Glasgow never truly got off the ground.

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A poster showing the George Bennie Railplane prototype in operation near Milngavie in the early 1930s.
Location: Bennie Railplane
Company: Bennie Railplane
15/03/2002 John Furnevel

This is a frame from 'The George Bennie Railplane System of Transport', courtesy of the BFI National Archive.
The image shows the railplane's 'car' under construction. The location is the Inchinnan aircraft Factory where rigid airships were built from 1915 to 1921.
The full film is on the BFI Player.
Location: Inchinnan Aircraft Factory
Company: Beardmore Engineering Co
//1929 Courtesy of the BFI National Archive

Model of the Bennie Raiplane in the Glasgow Transport Museum.
Location: Kelvin Hall [Attraction]
Company: Bennie Railplane
08/11/2001 Ewan Crawford

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