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The Ještěd cable car is an aerial cable car service in the Czech Republic, linking Horní Hanychov in the city of Liberec with the summit of Ještěd mountain. The cable car is operated by Czech Railways. The cable car was opened in 1933, and was operated by Czechoslovak State Railways for most of its history. In the early 1970s the cable car ...
The Zagreb cable car is a gondola lift in Zagreb, Croatia. Opened in 2022, it runs from the Podsljeme district to Sljeme, the highest peak of the Medvednica mountain. History
Test runs began on the cable car line in April 2021, [7] with a planned opening date of October 10, 2021. However, media reports the following day indicated that while all infrastructure was complete, a dispute had arisen with Doppelmayr Cable Car , the Austrian cable car manufacturer which was delaying the inauguration of the service. [ 8 ]
The Funiculars of Lyon (Funiculaires de Lyon) is a network of funicular railways in Lyon, France.Of the five lines once in existence, only the two routes on the Fourvière hill remain in operation, with the rest of the network now either closed, converted to road vehicle use, or integrated within the Lyon underground system.
SUNLAND PARK, N.M. – Pete Hegseth’s motorcade stirred a cloud of dust around dozens of troops and border agents waiting in the desert to greet the new defense secretary. It was his first visit ...
Car #105 preserved at the Seashore Trolley Museum. The first Dunedin cable car line opened on 6 February 1881, [2] the engineer responsible being George Smith Duncan.For this system he introduced the pull curve and the slot brake; the former was a way to pull cars through a curve, since Dunedin's curves were too steep to allow coasting, while the latter forced a wedge down into the cable slot ...
The cable car equipment was not affected. In May 2012, passenger traffic at times began to exceed the capacity. During the first year of operation, the number of passengers was almost 2 million people. On the morning of 31 July 2014 on the cable car there was an emergency. In the prop next to the cabin, where there were people, was struck by ...
The drivers remotely control the speed of the cable, which is powered by a 355 kW (476 hp) electric motor and slowed by redundant braking systems, all located at the upper terminus. In normal service the cars operate at 4 m/s (13 ft/s), but at times of high demand this can be increased to 7 m/s (23 ft/s).