Monorail
The first monorail in India was the Patiala State Monorail Trainways which opened in February 1907 and closed in 1927. A monorail system was also operated in Kerala, which was eventually converted into a narrow gauge line.
The Mumbai Monorail will be the first monorail in India (excluding the Skybus Metro Test Track in Goa) since the closing of the Patiala State Monorail Trainways in 1927. The first portion of the first line is scheduled to be operational by December 2012. Many other Indian cities have Monorail projects, as a feeder system to the Metro, in different phases of planning.
Pink background for the systems that are terminated.Green background for the systems that are under-construction. Blue background for the systems that are currently in planning.
| City | System | Start of operations | System length (km) | No of Lines | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IO1 | P2 | UC3 | ||||
| Munnar | Kundala Valley Railway | 1902 | 5 km | 1 | ||
| Patiala | Patiala State Monorail Trainways | 1907 | 80 km | 1 | ||
| Palakkad and Thrissur | Cochin State Forest Tramway | 1907 | 79.5 km | 1 | ||
| Margao | Skybus Metro | 2004 | 1.6 km | 1 | ||
| Mumbai | Mumbai Monorail | 2013 | 19.54 km | 1 | ||
| Chennai | Chennai Monorail | 2014 | 57 km | 3 | ||
| Thiruvananthapuram | Thiruvananthapuram Monorail | 2016 | 41.8 km | 2 | ||
| Bangalore | Bangalore Monorail | 60 km | ||||
| Coimbatore | Coimbatore Monorail | |||||
| Delhi | Delhi Monorail | 90 km | ||||
| Indore | Indore Monorail | - | ||||
| Kanpur | Kanpur Monorail | 63 km | ||||
| Kolkata | Kolkata Monorail | 72 km | ||||
| Kozhikode | Kozhikode Monorail | 2015 | 14.5 km | 2 | ||
| Navi Mumbai | Navi Mumbai Monorail | 36.82 km | ||||
| Patna | Patna Monorail | 32 km | ||||
| Pune | Pune Monorail | 52 km | ||||
| Ahmedabad | Ahmedabad Monorail | 30 km | 4 | |||
| Aizawl | Aizawl Monorail | 5 km | ||||
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