XIV 



THE RAILPLANE 



EVER since railways were introduced the 

 engineer has always been puzzling himself 

 as to whether it would not be possible to 

 do away with one of the two rails. Many 

 systems have been tried, and although a 

 fair measure of success has been attained, 

 nothing has so far been evolved which is 

 better than the present system of the dual 

 rail. 



The mono-rail has had a great deal 

 of attention given to it, but it has not 

 ever gone beyond the experimental stage, 

 save perhaps in the case of the Laritgue 

 system, which was employed in Ireland 

 between Listowel and Ballybunion. This 

 little system ran for many years, and 

 although it had the element of success 

 in it, there were so many disadvantages in 



