Valley station
The valley station is the lower terminal of an aerial lift, cable car, gondola lift, chairlift, rack railway or ski lift. The valley station is the counterpart of a top station. Cable cars may be boarded at both stations. The valley station is always at a lower elevation than the top station.
Valley stations on a cable car may be ordinary buildings with a docking bay or open steel structures. They are oriented in the direction of the cables. Gondola lifts, by contrast always have horizontally-oriented valley stations.
Gallery
[edit]- Hungerburg station on the Nordkettenbahn, Innsbruck
- Chäserrugg cable car, Unterwasser, Canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland
- Furtschellas, Engadin, Switzerland
- Finkenberg gondola lift, Zillertal, Austria
Examples
[edit]Name | Valley station: | Top station: |
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Klewenalpbahn | Beckenried (420 m) | Klewenalp (1590 m) |
Titlisbahn | Engelberg (1000 m) | Titlis (3020 m) |
Säntisbahn | Schwägalp (1345 m) | Säntis (2503 m) |
Klein Matterhorn-Bahn | Zermatt (1619 m) | Klein Matterhorn (3885 m) |
Stockhornbahn | Erlenbach (720 m) | Stockhorn (2190 m) |
Weisshornbahn | Obersee Arosa (1750 m) | Weisshorn (2650 m) |
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