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See all on Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_car_(railway)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. Cable cars are
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See moreThe first cable-operated railway, employing a moving rope that could be picked up or released by a grip on the cars was the Fawdon Wagonway in 1826, a colliery railway line. The London and Blackwall Railway,
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The cable is itself powered by a stationary engine or motor situated in a cable house or power house. The speed at which it moves is relatively constant depending on the number of units gripping the cable at any given time.
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• a scripophily based article re. the San Francisco Cal Cable and the Swiss Borel Bankers (in German)...
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Traditional cable car systems
The best-known existing cable car system is the San Francisco cable car system in the city of...
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The majority of inclines were used in industrial settings, predominantly in quarries and mines, or to ship bulk goods over a barrier ridgeline as the Allegheny Portage Railroad and the Ashley Planes feeder railway shipped coal from the Pennsylvania Canal/Susquehanna basin via Mountain Top to the Lehigh Canal in the Delaware RiverBasin. The Welsh slate industry made extensive use of gra…
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A Cable Car on rails is not a vertical mover. Eg. one of the most succesful networks was Chicago. A cable car can go nearly anywhere, as long as there's a cable to pull. That's quite different from the possibilities of the funicular, and it's the latter that should be categorized vertical transport system. Aliter 14:57, 17 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_cable_car_system
- The San Francisco cable car system is the world's last manually operated cable car system and an icon of the city of San Francisco. The system forms part of the intermodal urban transport network operated by the San Francisco Municipal Railway, which also includes the separate E Embarcadero and F Market & Wharves heritage streetcar lines, and the M...
- Headquarters: San Francisco Cable Car Museum
- Number of lines: 3
- Number of stations: 62
- Track gauge: 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_cars_in_Los_Angeles
Cable car street railways first began operating in Los Angeles in 1885 and lasted until 1902, when the lines were electrified and electric streetcars were …
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stresa–Alpino–Mottarone_Cable_Car
The Stresa-Alpino-Mottarone Cable Car was opened to the public on 1 August 1970, following three years of construction. The aerial tramway replaced the historic Stresa-Mottarone Railway [ it] to Mottarone, which operated from 1912 until its closure on 13 May 1963. The cable car system had undergone a 4.4 million euro renovation and general ...
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Tsukuba_Cable_Car
The Mount Tsukuba Cable Car (筑波山ケーブルカー, Tsukubasan Kēburukā), officially the Mount Tsukuba Cable Railway Line (筑波山鋼索鉄道線, Tsukubasan Kōsaku Tetsudō-sen), is a Japanese funicular line on Mount Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki.
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