3 h. ago Riding high in Germany on the world’s oldest suspended railway

Still gliding above the town of Wuppertal on an overhead track 125 years after it was built, the charming Schwebebahn has lost none of its magicIt’s easy to be seduced by the romance of train travel. Think of sleeper trains, boat trains, vintage steam railways, elegant dining cars. But it’s rare that an urban transport system can capture the imagination quite as much as the Wuppertal Schwebebahn in Germany caught mine, and that of anyone else who’s clapped eyes on the world’s oldest suspended railway.In October it will be 125 years since Kaiser Wilhelm II took a test ride in the Schwebebahn, just a few months before the hanging railway officially opened for business in March 1901. It was an incredible feat of engineering then, and remains so today. Even with sleek modern carriages having long replaced the original ones, it looks like something imagined by Jules Verne, with carriages smoothly gliding under the overhead track. They have even preserved the first 1901 carriage, nickname...

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Terry Moran branded Trump and Miller ‘world-class haters’ in now-deleted Twitter screeds

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10 h. ago ABC suspends reporter who interviewed Trump over devastating analysis of president – and Stephen Miller

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10 h. ago EastEnders' Jamie Borthwick looks glum as he steps out amid BBC suspension over slur scandal

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18 h. ago EastEnders actor Jamie Borthwick apologises after using slur at Blackpool Strictly show

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29 h. ago EastEnders star Jamie Borthwick suspended by BBC for disabled slur in latest Strictly scandal

The actor said there was ‘no excuse’ for the comment and that he ‘did not fully understand the derogatory term’

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