One of my early English School Books had many stories to show how to use correct grammer. Something I have never fully mastered! One of the stories was about an Overhead Railway in Wuppertal, Germany. This being many many years ago there were few pictures in the book and you had to use your imagination and picture the Overhead Railway in your mind. The forward thinking people of Wuppertal built a railway over and following the river which snakes through the town. The railway was built in the early 20th century and remains today modernised and still the mainstay of the local transport system. In 2005 I finally got to visit the railway and took several rides on it. The term 'ride' is most appropriate as it really feels like a fair ground ride and the carriages gently swing in the wind as they glide along suspended over the river. Thanks to the Internet its quite easy today to get information and pictures about every subject. From first reading the story about the Overhead Railway and finally getting to see it took nearly 38 years. A long journey, sometimes a long journey ends in disapointment, but in this case the journey really was the reward!
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