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Forgive me writing in English, but my German is not good enough.

 

These images bought back many memories for me because I rode on this monorail in 1960 or 1961 on a school trip to Germany. I have never been back to Wuppertal but remember the railway well.

 

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Forgive me writing in English, but my German is not good enough.

 

These images bought back many memories for me because I rode on this monorail in 1960 or 1961 on a school trip to Germany. I have never been back to Wuppertal but remember the railway well.

 

Gerry

 

 

@Garry, you're most welcome.

1961 start my first memories of Wuppertal, at that time I was a four-year-old youngster, which had to be strictly forbidden by his parents to play at that time in Wuppertal's still abundant ruins of WW2.
The Wuppertal, which you saw at your visit, should have looked like my father has photographed it at the time:
With the help of fotomas the old color slide was digitally refreshed better than I could do it.
 
Now for 20 years I am only an occasional guest in my home town.
But the engineering marvel - the monorail - I photograph as enthusiastic as the tourists from all over the world.
 

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Tuffi fährt dann doch nochmal Schwebebahn, aber diesmal mit dem Kaiserwagen:

 

 

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In der Mitte der Schwebebahnhaltestelle "Döppersberg" (Wuppertal-Hbf)

gibt es vier Verkaufsstellen mit einem gekrümmten Schaufenster.

Fahrkartenautomaten machen einige arbeitslos.

 

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Die erst einige Jahrzehnte später eingebauten Aufzüge

hat man leider nicht dem Stil der Verkaufsstände angepasst.

 

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Reger Betrieb vor dem als Kiosk genutzten Verkaufsstand.

 

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Diese " runden Scheiben" sind Einzelanfertigungen und im Vergleich mit einer vergleichbaren planen Glasscheibe sauteuer. Auch das handling mit diesen Scheiben ist immer risikoreich. Deshalb bei Ersatz oft Plexiglas.

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Diese " runden Scheiben" sind Einzelanfertigungen und im Vergleich mit einer vergleichbaren planen Glasscheibe sauteuer. Auch das handling mit diesen Scheiben ist immer risikoreich. Deshalb bei Ersatz oft Plexiglas.

 

Dann werde ich beim nächsten Besuch mal ganz vorsichtig gegen eine der gekrümmten Scheiben klopfen, um vielleicht feststellen zu können, ob bereits Plexi das ursprüngliche Glas ersetzt hat.

Die Verkaufsstände mit den gekrümmten Scheiben kenne ich seit den 1960ern und hielt sie bisher für typische Ausstattungsmerkmale der Wiederaufbauzeit in den 1950ern.

Vielleicht ist jemandem bekannt, ob sie bereits beim Neubau des Bahnhofs 1926 eingebaut wurden?

Der gute Zustand der Messingrahmen lässt auf eine Restaurierung zu einem erheblich späteren Zeitpunkt schließen.

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