cable car Archives - Mechtraveller https://mechtraveller.com/tag/cable-car/ Mechanically-minded travel Thu, 21 Dec 2017 18:09:25 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Record-Breaking Cable Car Opens on Germany’s Highest Mountain https://mechtraveller.com/2017/12/record-breaking-cable-car-opens-germanys-highest-mountain/ https://mechtraveller.com/2017/12/record-breaking-cable-car-opens-germanys-highest-mountain/#respond Thu, 21 Dec 2017 18:09:25 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=2910 After six years of planning and construction a new state-of-the-art cable car made its inaugural journey today on the Zugspitze, Germany’s highest mountain. The new cable car replaces the old Eibsee cable car* that has been taking up to half a million passengers a year up the mountain for over half a century. Now passengers […]

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