The wuppertal schwebebahn “the skytrain “

The Wuppertaler Schwebebahn ("Wuppertal Suspension Railway") is a suspension railway in Wuppertal, Germany.

The Wuppertaler Schwebebahn had a forerunner: in 1824, Henry Robinson Palmer of Britain presented a railway system

The Schwebebahn now carries approximately 80,000 passengers through the city per weekday

Kluse station, at the theatre in Elberfeld, was destroyed during the Second World War and was reconstructed during the modernization phase.

On 15 December 2009, the Schwebebahn suspended its operations due to safety concerns. Several of the older support structures needed to be renewed, a process that was completed on 19 April 2010

The modernization was completed and the line fully reopened on 19 August 2013.

In November 2018 a bus bar detached and fell to the ground but nobody was injured. Following this accident, the Schwebebahn was closed down for nearly nine months.It re-opened on 1 August 2019