Bennie's Rail Plane

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Re: Bennie's Rail Plane

Postby engineer » Fri Apr 17, 2009 1:23 pm

bennie's rail plane gets a wee mention here, with some other monorail systems
http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2009/04/one-track-wonders-early-monorails.html
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Re: Bennie's Rail Plane

Postby rotten milk » Sat Apr 18, 2009 8:54 pm

a contemporary account here:

http://mikes.railhistory.railfan.net/r069.html

the article index is at http://mikes.railhistory.railfan.net/pindex.html and is a fascinating collection of articles, presumably from leaflets, journals, books etc. at the time.

alaways interesting reading stuff like this: for the stuff that exists/existed/worked but from when it was new and 'modern' an also for stuff which was proposed but never realised or caught on at the time.
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Re: Bennie's Rail Plane

Postby cell » Wed Apr 22, 2009 7:00 pm

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Came across this recently, does any one know if this company was connected to George Bennie or anything about the company? Lift engineering doesn’t seem a million miles from rail planes apart from the direction of travel. I did find a reference to an original lift in the Albert Chambers at 11, 13 & 15 Bath Street in a listed building report, this was built around 1901.
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Re: Bennie's Rail Plane

Postby Vinegar Tom » Fri Nov 19, 2010 12:49 am

The location of the remains of the railplane structures came up during last weeks River Kelvin walk.

I plumbed in the coordinates from Monument's research , and it turns out that we probably passed quite close by in the final stage of the walk. I have plotted our route as a red line and the foundation locations as a red cross.

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Re: Bennie's Rail Plane

Postby Lucky Poet » Fri Nov 19, 2010 9:38 pm

rotten milk wrote:a contemporary account here:

http://mikes.railhistory.railfan.net/r069.html

I missed this when posted, but it's awfy good, as are the other articles. Ta! (And I had no idea Liverpool once had an elevated railway.)
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Re: Bennie's Rail Plane

Postby Monument » Fri Oct 14, 2011 4:25 pm

There is a video (possibly the same on HH posted) on the National Library of Scotland's' YouTube channel here http://www.youtube.com/user/NLofScotland#p/u/9/N4Qamg3C188

as well as some other cool stuff...
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Re: Bennie's Rail Plane

Postby ibtg » Sat Oct 15, 2011 12:14 pm

Available from East Dunbartonshire Libraries, £3.30.

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Re: Bennie's Rail Plane

Postby Alycidon » Sun Oct 16, 2011 9:28 am

Not quite sure that the map above is correct, the structure followed the line of the burn, and can be seen in this map
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Look where is says "overhead railway"
There is also a rare colour picture of the structure in the background of a shotin the book "Bygone Glasgow" which I bought recently
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Re: Bennie's Rail Plane

Postby Fireman » Mon Jun 04, 2012 8:42 pm

I seem to remember reading Bennie either built or was in negotiations to build an elevated railplane somewhere else in the world. Probably read in Bill Black's book, but its not to hand just now as I'm in sunny Coventry. :D
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Re: Bennie's Rail Plane

Postby Doug » Mon Jul 09, 2012 7:37 pm

my wife is a bearsden lass but she can remember her dad taking her up to milngavie to see the remnants of the railplane which she thinks was in what is now the rugby field. In those days the railplane had no real historic significance it was no more than a pile of scrap and a blot on the landscape. Nowadays we realize that it could have been a worthwhile transport system
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Re: Bennie's Rail Plane

Postby Grahame » Mon Jan 26, 2015 3:51 pm

The Railplane gets a wee mention and a couple of pictures in this BBC News article on 'Tomorrow's Transport'.
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Re: Bennie's Rail Plane

Postby moonbeam » Tue Jan 27, 2015 12:12 am

The wooden hut in the timber yard opposite the Burnbrae is all that's left. It was a railway goods parcel receiving office at one time.
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