Saturday 30 June 2012

Another Ride That Is Defiantly Not For Me,

as Switzerland launches the world's first Cabrio aerial cable way,


the new Cabrio at Stanserhorn near Lucerne features double-deck aerial cabins, with steps leading up to an open-top sun deck – and is the first in the world to offer such cable way technology, the lower largely glazed deck offers capacity for 60 passengers, of whom 30 at a time can climb the short inner stairway to the sun deck, two cabins travel in opposite directions suspended on supporting parallel cables,


Facts & Figures:Valley station: 711 meters
Summit station: 1850 meters
Length: 2320 meters
Capacity: 60 passengers

Hourly capacity: 465 passengers
Masts: 4
Speed: 8 meters per second

Travel time: 6 minutes 15 seconds
Track gauge: 5 meters,


Jürg Balsiger, Director of the Stanserhorn Railway Company, says: 'the Stanserhorn has always been an unforgettable Alpine experience – our vision is to make it even more memorable, this we are doing with the inauguration of new Cabrio aerial cable way. Swiss state-of-the-art innovation has created a spectacular but safe new dimension in Alpine travel,' that may well be so, but with my fear of heights I will not be traveling on it any time soon! even if I was a holder of a Swiss Pass, they benefit from special fares on the Stanserhorn, paying only half the normal price.

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