Cable car

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Cable car in Rote Nase, Swiss Alps

Plateau Rosa cable car, in Italy, reaches 3480m of the Testa Grigia.

cable car in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

A cable car is any of a variety of transportation systems relying on cables to pull vehicles along or lower them at a steady rate, or a vehicle on these systems.

Aerial lift

Aerial lifts where the vehicle is suspended in the air from a cable:

• An aerial tramway consists of a cabin suspended from a cable, pulled by another cable.
• A gondola lift consists of a loop of cable that is strung between two or more stations, usually over intermediate supporting towers, from which cars are suspended.
• A ropeway conveyor or material ropeway is a subtype of gondola lift, from which containers for goods rather than passenger cars are suspended.
• Chairlifts where open chairs are hauled above the ground by means of a cable.

Rail system

Varieties in which the vehicle rests on rails or a road:

• A system to haul trains along streets, see Cable car (railway)
• The particular cable car system in operation in San Francisco, California, see San Francisco cable car system
• A funicular consists of a pair of railway cars that alternately ascend and descend an inclined right-of-way, attached to a common cable.
• A cable railway uses a cable or rope to haul trains.

The longest cableway

The world's longest operable cableway is the Forsby-Köping limestone cableway in Sweden at 42 km (26 mi).^[1] The longest ever in operation was the 96 km (60 mi) Kristineberg-Boliden ropeway conveyor in Sweden. One of its 8 sections has been converted to a gondola lift and is still operating as the 13.2 km Norsjö aerial tramway making it the world's longest passenger cableway.

Also worth mentioning are Skyrail Rainforest Cableway, a gondola lift in Australia is 7.5 km long (two sections), and the Swiss Gondelbahn Grindelwald-Männlichen is 6.2 km long (two sections). The longest reversible aerial tramway built in one section only is Wings of Tatev in Armenia at 5.7 km (3.5 mi).

See also

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Cable transport

• Cable ferry
• Reaction ferry
• Ski lift
• Skyline logging
• Transporter bridge
• Zip-line

References

1. ^ Henrik Ogstedt; Hanna Domfors (2010) (in swedish). Kalklinbanan: sammanställning och kulturhistorisk värdering (The limestone cableway: overview and cultural-historic evaluation) (Report). NIRAS Sweden AB. http://ekuriren.se/polopoly_fs/1.892044.1291909015!/Rapport%20Kalklinbanan%20101201.pdf.