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The Tanigawadake Ropeway (谷川岳ロープウェイ, Tanigawadake Rōpuwei) is a Japanese cable car line, operated by Tanigawadake Ropeway Company. The Tōbu Group company also operates another aerial lift line, Harunasan Ropeway. Opened in 1960, the line climbs Mount Tanigawa Tenjindaira Ski Resort, Minakami, Gunma. The line is operated all ...
Gulmarg Gondola at Gulmarg: This ski resort has the 2nd highest cable car in the world and Asia's highest and longest cable car reaching an altitude of 13,400 ft. [11] Jammu ropeway: it is 1.65 km long cable car, with first section from Peer Kho to the Mahamaya temple over the Tawi River and second section is from the Mahamaya temple to the ...
The White Cross that had been destroyed during the 1991–95 war has been rebuilt. Srđ is a low mountain just behind the walled city of Dubrovnik in Dalmatia, Croatia. [1] The mountain, part of the Dinaric Alps, has a height of 412 metres (1,352 ft). [2]
A San Francisco cable car on the Powell & Hyde line. A cable car (usually known as a cable tram outside North America) is a type of cable railway used for mass transit in which rail cars are hauled by a continuously moving cable running at a constant speed. Individual cars stop and start by releasing and gripping this cable as required.
Cars are operated once every 15 minutes, with the entire ride taking 5 minutes. Fares are 490 yen one-way and 950 yen return for adults (250/470 yen for children). [ 2 ] Although more expensive per kilometer when compared to other Japanese railway lines (including the shinkansen ), fares on the Takao Mountain Railroad funicular compare with ...
The first two of these pre-dated the construction of Pinnacle Road. In 1905, Arnold Wertheimer proposed the construction of an aerial cableway (at the time referred to as an "aerial railway") from The Springs to the Pinnacle of Mt Wellington, [1] [2] and in 1906 established The Mount Wellington Aerial Railway Company Ltd. [3] This proposal was soon modified to run from Cascades to the pinnacle ...
Kashi ropeway is an under construction aerial cable car urban transit system in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India. It will be the first public transport ropeway of India. It will be 3.75 km long with five stations connecting Varanasi Cantonment railway station to Godowlia Chowk. It is expected to open in May 2025.
The cable car climbs 1,011 metres (3,317 ft) to the top of Mount Hoven, above the Nordfjord. The maximum speed is 7 metres per second (23 ft/s). [ 1 ] With a gradient up to 60°, it is one of the steepest in the world.