The overhead conveyor (also: Overhead-railway) is a course, with which the track over the actual vehicle runs and is hung up this to it.

Often overhead conveyors are used in the mining industry, since one does not have to manufacture a subgrade level thereby on the sole of a lug or a distance, but the rails on the roofridges to depend knows. Such are driven on either with Diesel or battery-operated towing vehicles (so-called Diesel or battery cats) or implemented as aerial ropeways. For ranking work there are ranking cats also compressed air-driven. They serve mainly the materials handling; isolated they are used also for driving.

Over days only few overhead conveyors could themselves intersperse, since the wing units for the rails are to be built quite Therefore, as above all with a rail courses generally, recreational parks are biotope of the overhead conveyor.

An overhead conveyor over a waters away is called (inaccurately)

Examples

• Wuppertaler suspension railway
• Suspension railway Dresden
• Overhead-railways in Dortmund and Duesseldorf
• Suspension railway Memphis
• Ueno zoo Monorail in Tokyo
• Shonan Monorail
• Chiba Monorail

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• Suspension railway in Dresden between the local parts Loschwitz and Oberloschwitz since 1901

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