Public transit monorail system at Walt Disney World Resort
Not to be confused with Disneyland Monorail.
Walt Disney World Monorail System
Monorail Coral traveling on the Epcot Line in April 2009
Overview
Owner
The Walt Disney Company
Locale
Walt Disney World
Transit type
Straddle-beam Monorail
Number of lines
3
Number of stations
6
Daily ridership
150,000+[1]
Annual ridership
~50,000,000
Website
Disney Monorail Transportation
Operation
Began operation
October 1, 1971; 52 years ago (1971-10-01)
Operator(s)
Disney Transport
Number of vehicles
12
Train length
203.5 ft (62.0 m)
Technical
System length
14.7 mi (23.7 km)[2]
Electrification
Third rail, 600 V DC
Average speed
30 mph (48 km/h)
Top speed
40 mph (64 km/h)
Walt Disney World
Theme parks
Magic Kingdom
Epcot
Disney's Hollywood Studios
Disney's Animal Kingdom
Water parks
Disney's Typhoon Lagoon
Disney's Blizzard Beach
Other attractions and areas
Disney Springs
Flamingo Crossings
Disney's BoardWalk
Winter Summerland
ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex
Resorts
Walt Disney World Resorts
Affiliated services
Club 33
Disney Dining Plan
Disney PhotoPass
Disney Vacation Club
Golden Oak
MagicBands
My Disney Experience
Transport
Disney Transport
Disney Skyliner
Transportation and Ticket Center
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The Walt Disney World Monorail System is a public transit monorail in operation at the Walt Disney World Resort in Bay Lake, Florida, near Orlando. The resort operates twelve Mark VI monorail trains on three lines of service.[3][4][5] The monorail system opened in 1971 with two routes (Magic Kingdom: Resort and Express) and with Mark IV monorail trains. It was expanded to three lines (Magic Kingdom: Resort and Express, plus Epcot) in 1982, and the rolling stock was updated to Mark VI trains in 1989.[3]
As of 2016[update], the system was one of the most heavily used monorail systems in the world, with over 150,000 daily riders.[1][6] It is surpassed by the Tokyo Monorail in Tokyo, Japan, which has over 300,000 daily riders;[7] and by the monorail system run by Chongqing Rail Transit in Chongqing, China, which has over 900,000 daily riders on Line 2 and Line 3 combined.[8] The Walt Disney World system nevertheless remains one of the most famous monorails, along with the Disneyland Monorail System at Disneyland in Anaheim, CA.
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^The Monorail Society. "Walt Disney World". Archived from the original on May 19, 2007. Retrieved June 23, 2007.
^ abMonorail Express. "Facts". Archived from the original on May 20, 2007. Retrieved June 13, 2007.
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^"UPDATE: New monorail fleet in the works? Disney World denies rumors". palmbeachpost. Retrieved June 29, 2018.
^"Webster: D.C. Metro should be more like Disney World monorail". Orlando Sentinel. Archived from the original on July 30, 2016. Retrieved September 14, 2016.
^"Tokyo Monorail Co., Ltd. – Company Profile". Tokyo Monorail Co., Ltd. Archived from the original on September 19, 2016. Retrieved September 7, 2016.
^"重庆轨道3号线成世界上最繁忙的单轨线". 国际在线. Archived from the original on December 5, 2014. Retrieved September 7, 2016.
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