| 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 |
| 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) |
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 therefore is one of the most famous monorails, beside the Disneyland Monorail at Disneyland in Anaheim, California.
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