aerial cableway

aerial cableway
A large assortment of cables, suspended above the ground at a minesite or quarry, used to transport tools and equipment over rough territory.

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  • Table Mountain Aerial Cableway — The Table Mountain Aerial Cableway is a cableway to the top of Table Mountain in Cape Town, South Africa. It is one of Cape Town s most popular tourist attractions, having passed its 16 millionth visitor on 29 December 2004.The lower cable… …   Wikipedia

  • Table Mountain Aerial Cableway — Tafelberg Südafrikanische Landschaft mit Tafelberg und Lion’s Head Höhe 1.087 m …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Aerial tramway — An aerial tramway is a type of aerial lift in which a cabin is suspended from a cable and is pulled by another cable. An aerial tramway is often called a cable car or ropeway, and sometimes incorrectly referred to as a gondola lift (not to be… …   Wikipedia

  • Aerial railway — A*[ e] ri*al rail way (a) A stretched wire or rope elevated above the ground and forming a way along which a trolley may travel, for conveying a load suspended from the trolley. (b) An elevated cableway. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Aerial Tramway Cologne — The Aerial Tramway Cologne is the only cableway that runs across the Rhine in Cologne, Germany. 13.7 million people rode the tramway from 1957 to 2004 without an accident; and in 2004, it carried 288,500 passengers. It is considered to be Cologne …   Wikipedia

  • aerial railway — elevated cableway; wire which forms the way along which a trolly can travel …   English contemporary dictionary

  • List of aerial tramways — around the world.:For gondola lifts, see the List of gondola lifts.:For funitels, see the Funitel article.(Note: this list should not contain gondola lifts.)Africaflag|South Africa* The Table Mountain Aerial Cableway, to summit of Table Mountain …   Wikipedia

  • COMILOG Cableway — The COMILOG Cableway was one of the longest cableways in the world, until its closure in 1986.[1] The ropeway conveyor ran for 76 km from Moanda in the Haut Ogooué Province of south eastern Gabon to Mbinda in the Republic of Congo. In 1954, the… …   Wikipedia

  • Masada cableway — The Masada cableway is an aerial tramway at the ancient fortress of Masada, Israel. Its bottom station is 257 m below and its summit station is 33 metres above sea level, thereby making it the lowest aerial tramway in the world. The cableway was… …   Wikipedia

  • Norsjö aerial tramway — is a 13.2 kilometre long aerial tramway (cable car) between Örträsk and Mensträsk in the Norsjö Municipality in Sweden. Norsjö aerial tramway went in service for passenger traffic in 1989 as a tourist attraction. It is a section of the longest… …   Wikipedia

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