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2. Gondola lift - Wikipedia

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   Gondola lift at the Ylläs ski resort in Lapland, Finland. In some systems the passenger cabins, which can hold between two and fifteen people, [4] are connected to the cable by means of spring–loaded grips. These grips allow the cabin to be detached from the moving cable and slowed in the terminals, to allow passengers to board and disembark.

3. Peak 2 Peak Gondola - Wikipedia

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   Coordinates: 50°04′10″N 122°56′45″W. One of the 28 cabins on the Peak 2 Peak Gondola. The Peak 2 Peak Gondola is a tricable gondola lift at Whistler Blackcomb Resort in Whistler, British Columbia, linking Whistler Mountain 's Roundhouse Lodge with Blackcomb Mountain 's Rendezvous Lodge. It is the first lift to join the two side-by ...

4. Aerial lift - Wikipedia

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   8-passenger gondola lift in Panticosa Ski Resort, Spain. An aerial lift, [1] also known as a cable car or ropeway, is a means of cable transport in which cabins, cars, gondolas, or open chairs are hauled above the ground by means of one or more cables. Aerial lift systems are frequently employed in a mountainous territory where roads are ...

5. Tricable gondola lift - Wikipedia

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   Tricable gondola lift. The tricable gondola lift, also known as the 3S gondola lift, is a cable car system that was developed by the Swiss company Von Roll transport systems in Thun to unite the benefits of a gondola lift with those of a reversible cable car system. '3S' is an abbreviation of the German word dreiseil, meaning 'tricable'.

6. Aerial tramway - Wikipedia

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   An aerial tramway consists of one or two fixed cables (called track cables), one loop of cable (called a haulage rope), and one or two passenger or cargo cabins.The fixed cables provide support for the cabins while the haulage rope, by means of a grip, is solidly connected to the truck (the wheel set that rolls on the track cables).

7. List of gondola lifts - Wikipedia

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   1] This article is a List of gondola lifts around the world. A gondola lift has cabins suspended from a continuously circulating cable whereas aerial trams simply shuttle back and forth on cables. (Both are cable cars, and both are aerial lifts which also includes chairlifts.) For aerial tramways, see the List of aerial tramways.