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An elevated railway or elevated train (also known as an el train or el for short) is a railway with the tracks above street level on a or other elevated structure (usually constructed from steel, cast iron, concrete, or bricks). The railway may be a broad-gauge, standard-gauge or narrow-gauge railway, , , or a suspension railway. Elevated railways are normally found in urban areas that would otherwise require impracticably many . Usually, the tracks of elevated railways that run on steel viaducts can be seen from street level.

History
The earliest elevated railway was the London and Greenwich Railway on a brick viaduct of 878 arches, built between 1836 and 1838. The first of the London and Blackwall Railway (1840) was also built on a viaduct. During the 1840s there were other plans for elevated railways in London that never came to fruition.Jack Simmons and Gordon Biddle, The Oxford Companion to British Railway History, Oxford University Press, (1997), p.360.

From the late 1860s onward, elevated railways became popular in US cities. New York's West Side and Yonkers Patent Railway opened in 1868 as a cable-hauled elevated railway

(2025). 9781590781760, Boyds Mills Press. .
and was operated using locomotives after 1871, when it was renamed the New York Elevated Railroad. This was followed in 1875 by the Manhattan Railway Company, which took over the New York Elevated Railroad.
(2025). 9780801879227, Johns Hopkins University Press. .
Other early elevated systems in the US included the Chicago "L", which was built by multiple competing companies beginning in 1892,
(2025). 9781467106023, Arcadia Publishing. .
as well as the Boston Elevated Railway in 1901 and the Market–Frankford Line in Philadelphia in 1907.
(2025). 9781439627419, Arcadia Publishing Incorporated. .
Globally, the (1882) and the (1898) are also mainly elevated.

The first electric elevated railway was the Liverpool Overhead Railway, which operated through Liverpool docks from 1893 until 1956.

In London, the Docklands Light Railway is a modern elevated railway that opened in 1987

(1995). 9780309061520, National Academy Press. .
and has since expanded. "DLR History Timeline". Transport for London. The trains are driverless and automatic. "Where are the drivers?" Transport for London. Another modern elevated railway is Tokyo's driverless line, opened in 1995.
(1996). 9784786901294, Shinkenchiku-Sha. .

Systems
Monorail systems
Most are elevated railways, such as the Disneyland Monorail System (1959), the (1964), the (1988–2013), the , the Las Vegas Monorail, the Seattle Center Monorail and the São Paulo Monorail. Most maglev railways are also elevated.

Suspension railways
During the 1890s there was some interest in suspension railways, particularly in Germany, with the Schwebebahn Dresden, (1891–) and the Wuppertal Schwebebahn (1901). suspension railways were built in and Düsseldorf airport, 1975. The Memphis Suspension Railway opened in 1982.

Suspension railways are usually monorail; and Chiba Urban Monorail in Japan, despite their names, are suspension railways.

People mover systems
People mover or automated people mover (APM) is a type of driverless grade-separated, mass-transit system. The term is generally used only to describe systems that serve as loops or feeder systems, but is sometimes applied to considerably more complex automated systems. Similar to monorails, Bombardier Innovia APM technology uses only one rail to guide the vehicle along the guideway. APMs are common at airports and effective at helping passengers quickly reach their gates. Several elevated APM systems at airports including the PHX Sky Train at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport; AeroTrain at Kuala Lumpur International Airport; and the Tracked Shuttle System at London Gatwick Airport, United Kingdom.

Modern systems
Rapid transit, light rail or commuter rail systems
Africa
  • Addis Ababa Light Rail
  • (Line 3)
  • Lagos Metro

Americas
  • Baltimore Metro (west of Mondawmin)
  • BART (partial)
  • Chicago "L" (except for underground sections of the Red Line and Blue Line and at-grade sections of the Brown Line, Purple Line, Pink Line, and Yellow Line)
  • Cleveland Red Line (partial)
  • Dallas Green Line (north branch)
  • Boston Green Line (partial)
  • Guadalajara light rail system Line 3 (partial under construction)
  • (partial)
  • Market–Frankford Line (underground in Center City Philadelphia and West Philadelphia up to 40th Street Station but elevated elsewhere)
  • Medellín Metro
  • MARTA (partial)
  • Montreal REM (partial, not fully)
  • (partial)
  • Mexico City Metro (partial)
  • New York City Subway (partial, 40% of tracks)
  • (partial)
  • PATH (partial)
  • (partial)
  • Skyline, Honolulu
  • SkyTrain, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (partial)
  • (partial)
  • (partial), an airport express train connecting Lester B. Pearson International Airport to Toronto Union Station in Toronto, Ontario

Asia

Europe

Oceania
  • Metro Trains Melbourne, mainly built by the Level Crossing Removal Project
  • Sydney Metro Northwest Line in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (between Bella Vista and Tallawong)

Disused
  • Boston Elevated Railways: Atlantic Avenue Elevated, Charlestown Elevated, Washington Street Elevated, Causeway Street Elevated
  • Elevated railways operated by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company and Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company in New York City
  • Liverpool Overhead Railway
  • The elevated Airport line of Kolkata Suburban Railway, closed in 2016 for reconstruction relating Kolkata Metro line 4
  • Line 3 Scarborough, a medium capacity metro rail line in Toronto, Ontario, Canada (ceased operation in July 2023 due to derailment and age, will be replaced by an extension of Line 2)

People mover
  • Tomorrowland Transit Authority PeopleMover, a people mover at and around Tomorrowland, , Walt Disney World Resort, Orlando, Florida, United States
  • , a people mover at and around John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York City, New York, United States
  • , a people mover at Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport, , Georgia, United States
  • Changi Airport Skytrain, an inter-terminal people mover at Changi International Airport in Singapore
  • Detroit People Mover, an urban transit people mover in , Michigan, United States
  • , an inter-terminal automated people mover in and Düsseldorf, Germany
  • Jacksonville Skyway, an automated people mover in Jacksonville, Florida, United States
  • , a people mover at , Florida, United States
  • PHX Sky Train, a people mover at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, Phoenix, Arizona, United States

Proposed designs
  • Phnom Penh SkyTrain (Cambodia)
  • Managua Metro (Nicaragua)
  • San Salvador Metro (El Salvador)
  • Ljubljana Metro (Slovenia)
  • 's will be partially elevated by the Victoria Park-Canning Level Crossing Removal Project

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