Walt Disney World Monorail System
| 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 |
| Stations | 6 |
| Website | Disney Monorail Transportation |
| Service | |
| Type | Straddle beam monorail |
| System | Disney Transport |
| Services | 3 |
| Operator(s) | Disney Transport |
| Rolling stock | 12 |
| Daily ridership | 150,000+ |
| Ridership | ~50,000,000 |
| History | |
| Opened | October 1, 1971 |
| Technical | |
| Line length | 14.7 mi (23.7 km) |
| Character | Elevated |
| Electrification | Contact rails, 600 V DC |
| Operating speed | 30 mph (48 km/h) (avg.) 40 mph (64 km/h) (top) |
The Walt Disney World Monorail System is a monorail serving Walt Disney World in Bay Lake, Florida, near Orlando. Operated by Disney Transport as part of the resort's public transportation system, it runs 12 Mark VI monorail trains across three lines of service.
First introduced in 1971, the system was Disney's second, following the Disneyland Monorail in California. It initially featured Mark IV trains running two services around the Magic Kingdom area: Resort and Express. In 1982, the system expanded to three services with an extension to Epcot, and by 1989, the fleet was upgraded to Mark VI trains.
As of 2016, the Walt Disney World Monorail was the third busiest monorail system globally, carrying over 150,000 passengers daily. It is surpassed by the Chongqing Rail Transit monorail system in China, where Line 2 and Line 3 combined accommodate more than 900,000 daily passengers, and the Tokyo Monorail line in Japan, which serves over 300,000 daily riders.