Walt Disney World Monorail System
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| Overview | |
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| Locale | Walt Disney World Resort |
| Transit type | straddle-beam Monorail |
| Number of lines | 3 |
| Number of stations | 6 |
| Daily ridership | 150,000+ |
| Website | Disney Monorail Transportation |
| Operation | |
| Began operation | October 1, 1971 |
| Operator(s) | Walt Disney World Resort |
| Train length | 203 ft 6 in (62.03 m) |
| Technical | |
| System length | 14.7 mi (23.66 km) |
| Track gauge | Single straddle-beam |
| Average speed | 40 mph (64 km/h) |
| Top speed | 55 mph (89 km/h) |
The Walt Disney World Monorail System is a public transit monorail system in operation at the Walt Disney World Resort in Bay Lake, Florida, near Orlando. The Walt Disney World Resort currently operates twelve Mark VI monorail trains on three lines of service. 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.
As of 2016[update], the system is one of the most heavily used monorail systems in the world with over 150,000 daily riders. It is surpassed by the Tokyo Monorail in Tokyo, Japan, which has over 300,000 daily riders; 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.
The Walt Disney World Monorail operates over a span of 14.7 miles (23.7 km), with around 50 million Disney guests traveling on the monorail each year. The system opened with the rest of the Walt Disney World Resort on October 1, 1971. It initially featured four stations: the Transportation and Ticket Center, Disney's Polynesian Resort, the Magic Kingdom and Disney's Contemporary Resort. The Epcot line and station were added during that park's construction, opening on October 1, 1982. The most recent addition was the Grand Floridian station, which was opened in 1988 along with the resort hotel.
The three services on two distinct routes on the Walt Disney World Monorail are:
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