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[DakarNick]

My parents brought a "Telepherique" book back from France last year. It has AWESOME history on it about the Alps trams and gondolas, but it's in French and I don't read French!

Anyway, there are a few pics of the Vanoise Express double-decker tram. I noticed a secondary 3-cable system above the main line, but never any cabins. Is this a rescue system or a maintenance system. Maybe for transporting goods to and from the stations? The line traverses a valley at a high span, so I am thinking rescue.

Here is a small pic in this article link:
http://www.goodskiguide.com/dev/index.php/...ews/144-vanoise

Thanks, Nick

[Vincen]

Hi Nick,

You can find a complete story about that special lift here: http://www.remontees...ortage-155.html Sorry it's only in french :-(

Cables present above cables weighting cabins are for return of move cable ;-)

For info, that lift didn't work during whole winter last season as they discovered a defect in one of cables and so they changed whole set of cable that summer, and lift is now back in service :-)

Vincèn

[DakarNick]

Vincen, thanks a lot for the link! It makes sense now. I thought it was just a standard jig back but it's not, just an independant double-tram. I appreciate it!

Nick

[Vincen]

DakarNick, on Sep 21 2008, 03:35 PM, said:

Vincen, thanks a lot for the link! It makes sense now. I thought it was just a standard jig back but it's not, just an independant double-tram. I appreciate it!

You're welcome :)

Vincèn