Chester Zoo monorail
The Chester Zoo monorail was an internal transport system at Chester Zoo that operated from 1991 to 2019. Description The system was long and travelled on a single track elevated guideway, a straddle beam monorail, to give views of the zoo grounds – the track crossed Flag Lane twice on its one-way circular route. The two halves of the zoo were connected by the system and there was one station in each part, one near the lion enclosure (Jubilee Square station) and one near the monkey building (Tsavo station, formerly known as Monkey Island Station). The system operated four trains. Each train on the system could seat 24 passengers between its four cars and a full tour took around fifteen minutes. The layout had a separate depot and control room and carried approximately 2,000 passengers per day. T&M Machine Tool Electronics upgraded the monorail's drive system and electrics in 2009, including conversion from DC to AC electrical operation and automation improvements involving the laying of over of cabling, at a cost of £300,000. The upgraded system used pairs of AC motors for each carriage, with remote monitoring managed over a 5 GHz wireless link. History The monorail was built and