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The Walt Disney World Monorail System is a 14.7-mile monorail system that operates at the Walt Disney World in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. It began operation on October 1, 1971, and is the largest of the three Disney theme park monorail systems around the world, consisting of three lines.

Lines[]

Express[]

The Express line provides express service exclusively between the Transportation and Ticket Center and Magic Kingdom. It shares the same route as the Resort line, but travels counterclockwise on the outside track.

Stations[]

Resort[]

The Resort line is a round-trip line that services the Magic Kingdom and resorts in the surrounding area. It shares the same route as the Express line, but travels clockwise on the inside track.

Stations[]

Epcot[]

The Epcot line consists of an entirely separate route than the other two lines, traveling south from the TTC to Epcot. This line opened on October 1, 1982.

Stations[]

Spur Line[]

The Spur Line is not a revenue line, and is instead used to access the monorail barn, which is housed in a two-story building behind Fantasyland. The first floor serves as the engine house for the Walt Disney World Railroad.

During construction, this line was intended as a spur line to serve Disney's Persian Resort, which never came to fruition. Early drawings showed that the line would have split off again past the Persian Resort and have gone through Tomorrowland, which would have been against Walt Disney's wishes to keep the monorail out of the Magic Kingdom.

Future Expansion[]

At this time, there are no plans to expand the monorail system, mainly due to the prohibitive costs, an issue demonstrated by the over budget Las Vegas Monorail. As a result, the Disney Skyliner was built in lieu of an expansion.

A common misconception is that it would cost $1 million per mile to build an extension. The truth, however, is that if Disney could add 10 miles to the system for $10 million, it would immediately jump at the opportunity.

The last page of the book The Disney Monorail: Imagineering a Highway in the Sky shows a poster advertising a "Monorail Mark X" and that it would arrive at Epcot's Play Pavilion in 2021. However, as the book was written before the pandemic, it is unclear if this is still the case.

Trains[]

The Walt Disney World Monorail System has utilized two different train models since its opening in 1971:

Gallery[]

See also[]


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