List of aerial tramways


This is a list of aerial tramways or cable cars around the world.

Africa

  • Antananarivo Cableway

Asia

  • Chongqing An aerial tramway which provides transportation across the Yangtse River. It is called the Yangtze River Cableway. The tramway is 740 m long and operates at 8 m/s. Each cabin can carry a maximum of 45 passengers, with a total design capacity of 900 passengers /hour in each direction.
  • Guangzhou Baiyun Mountain Cable Car
  • Guangzhou Chimelong Paradise Cable Car
  • Heyuan Bavaria Manor Cable Car
  • Gulucun Cable Car World's second highest tramway at 400 meters.
  • Yushancun Cable Car China's second highest tramway at 350 meters.
  • Auli in Himachal Pradesh- longest ropeway in India and second largest in Asia, a length of 4.2 km. It is situated near Joshimath, Uttarakhand.
  • Gangtok in Sikkim – The ropeway ferries tourists from one part of the city of Gangtok to another and offers a panoramic view of the city, besides serving to de-congest it.
  • Girnar ropeway in Gujarat - Started in 2020, it is Asia's longest ropeway.
  • Gulmarg Gondola in Jammu and Kashmir, India's premier ski resort, boasts of the world's 2nd highest and Asia's highest and longest cable car, reaching an altitude of 13,400 ft.
  • Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh – Kailash Giri Ropeway is an 800 PPH capacity, 350 m long, Passenger Ropeway at Kailash Giri, Visakhapatnam.
  • Bhedaghat in Madhya Pradesh – This ropeway is a 400 PPH capacity, 600 m long Passenger Ropeway at Bhedaghat, Marble Rocks, Jabalpur.
  • Darjeeling in West Bengal – Underway is the revamping of an existing 100 PPD capacity Passenger Ropeway, also converting it into a2000 PPD capacity, 2.3 km long, Detachable Grip type, Six-Seater, multi-cabin Gondola.
  • Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir - Leads to the Sufi Shrine of Makhdoom Sahib on Hari Parbat.
  • Haridwar in Uttarakhand - India's first city to have two passenger ropeways, known as Mansa Devi Udan Khatola and Chandi Devi Udan Khatola. Mansa Devi ropeway is the busiest ropeway of India and is in service since 1981. Chandi Devi Ropeway for Maa Chandi Devi Temple is in service since 1997 and is the second busiest ropeway of India. Both ropeways have 800 PPH capacity.
  • Pavagadh in Gujarat - Known as Kalidevi Udan Khatola, it is the 3rd busiest ropeway of India. This ropeway is at Kalika Devi Temple since 1986. This ropeway was refurbished in 2005 with modern technology. It has 1,320 PPH capacity, which is highest in India.
  • Ambaji in Gujarat - Known as Ambaji Udan Khatola, it is the 4th busiest ropeway of India. This ropeway is at Maa Ambaji Devi Temple since 1998. This ropeway has 760 PPH capacity.
  • Taratarini Temple in Odisha - Known as Taratarini Udan Khatola, this ropeway is at Maa Taratarini Temple since 2013. It has a 300 PPH capacity.
  • Srisailam Ropeway in Andhra Pradesh
  • Nainital Ropeway is another ropeway in the state of Uttarakhand. The service provides for 2 wagons which carry 8 persons maximum each ferry, on opposite directions i.e. from Mallital Terminus to Snow view. The Rope Way is made with state of the Art Swiss collaboration and has got a very steep ascend and descend. It has views of the lake while ascending and of the flats while descending. It is also one of the longest ropeways of Asia with a stretch of almost 750 meters.
  • Sidhnath Ropeway in Rajasthan - Ropeway Under construction by Government of Rajasthan. Construction started on 2 October 2020 by a Company which manages Udaipur Ropeway.
  • Shri Naina Devi Ropeway in Himachal Pradesh - Built by Damodar Ropeways & Infra Ltd. in the year 1997 on Behalf of M/S Ganpati Ropeways, having capacity of 800 PPH. The hills of Naina Devi houses a Shakti Peeth Temple. The temple is frequented by many and large crowds can be seen year round. It is a holy abode amidst the Himalayas, making for a religious as well as a spiritual journey.
  • Science City Ropeway in West Bengal - Built by Damodar Ropeways & Infra Ltd. in the year 1998, with capacity of 500 PPH in the heart of city Kolkata. The cable car takes visitors from the point of entry to the far end of the park.
  • Maa Sharda Devi Ropeway - Maihar in Madhya Pradesh - Build by Damodar Ropeways & Infra Ltd. in the year 2009, having capacity of 800 PPH. Maihar is the abode of Sharda Devi and is an important Shakti Peeth. The cable car transports pilgrims to the top of the hills transcending the 1000 steep steps climb.
  • Trikut in Deoghar, Jharkhand - The three peaks of the Trikut Hill signify the holy trinity of Bhahma, Vishnu and Mahesh. Pilgrims visit this holy site all round the year. Damodar Ropeways & Infra Ltd. has built this cable car having 500 PPH capacity that takes passengers to the top of the hill.
  • Tawang Monastery in Arunachal Pradesh - Built by Damodar Ropeways & Infra Ltd. in the year 2010, this cable car, at 11000 feet above sea level, is one of the highest in the world.
  • Digha in West Benga - Digha cable car is built by Damodar Ropeways & Infra Ltd. in 2015, is within the premises of Amrabati Park and traverses the lake and park.
  • Namchi in Sikkim - This cable car was built on a difficult terrain by Damodar Ropeways & Infra Ltd. towards the dual aim of providing eco-friendly and energy efficient system of transportation and development of tourism.
  • Pushkar Ropeway in Rajasthan - The Aerial Passenger Ropeway system built by Damodar Ropeways & Infra Ltd.,, at Savitri Mata Temple saves the pilgrims from the strenuous stiff climb of little more than 1100 step and enables all pilgrims, particularly old and disable devotees to visit the Holy Temple in less than 6 minutes covering a distance of 720 m.
  • Dewas Built by Damodar Ropeways & Infra Ltd. on behalf of TDRPL, having 400 PPH capacity this 367 M long ropeway ascends from the junction of two national highways right up to Maa Chamunda Temple and Tulja Bhawani Mata Temple, while simultaneously being home to a Jain Temple and a Mosque, thus providing users with sight of the city and simultaneously making all three sites easily accessible
  • Vaishno Devi Ropeway Built by Damodar Ropeways & Infra Ltd. in technical collaboration with Garaventa, Switzerland this 375 M long Bi-cable double reversible Jigback Ropeway having 800 PPH capacity is indeed a marriage of technical and creative excellence. The journey from Bhavan to Bhairon temple can now be done on a state of the art ropeway by pilgrims within minutes.
  • Hirakud Ropeway in Odisha - Build by Damodar Ropeways & Infra Ltd. this 412 M long ropeway with 400 PPH capacity is built for Orissa Construction Corporation Ltd.. The views of the Hirakud dam and reservoir from the ropeway are relished by a large number of tourists visiting it.
  • Jammu Ropeway Built by Damodar Ropeways & Infra Ltd., this cable car built for Jammu Kashmir Cable Car Corporation has two sections. The first section is from Peer Kho to the Mahamaya temple and goes over river Tawi. The second section is from te Mahamaya temple to the Bahu Fort.
  • Umananda Island Guwahati Ropeway in Assam - a turnkey Twin Track Bi-Cable Double Reversible Jigback Ropeway of length 1800 m and 250 PPH capacity, build by Damodar Ropeways & Infra Ltd. was constructed for Guwahati Metropolitan Development Authority. This spectacular ropeway is India's longest river ropeway. It is built across Brahmaputra river over Umanand Island and allows easy transportation to and from North Guwahati. This ropeway is referred to as a jewel in the State of Assam.
  • Chitrakoot Ropeway, Madhya Pradesh Built by Damodar Ropeways & Infra Ltd., Chitrakoot Ropeway is 302 m long, having 500 PPH capacity. This Aerial Ropeway situated at Hanuman Dhara, Chitrakoot, Madhya Pradesh and is the best mode to visit Hanuman Dhara. The Hanuman Dhara is a much revered place at hilltop having great mythological significance. The Ropeway offers much relief to the pilgrims, by saving a strenuous, steep climb of 360 steps, taking a nominal 5 minutes to reach the top of the hill.
  • Ganjnameh Cable Car in Hamedan province of Iran is situated in an archaeological site belonging to the Achaemenid Empire era.
  • Tochal Telecabin in Tehran province of Iran is situated in Velenjak, north of Tehran. 7.5 km and one of the world longest cable car's line.
  • Namakabrood telecabin in Mazandaran province of Iran.
  • Lahijan telecabin in Guilan province of Iran.
  • The Masada cableway which lifts visitors from well below sea level up to the butte where the ancient Jewish fortress town's ruins can be seen. The only other way up is a snake path.
  • The Rosh HaNikra grottoes cableway which takes visitors down to the grottoes carved by the Mediterranean Sea.
  • The Stella Maris cableway in Haifa which lifts people from the Mediterranean coast to the top of Mount Carmel.
  • The Rakavlit in Haifa functions as a public transit cable car system, linking the two university campuses of the Technion and Haifa University with the central bus station Merkazit HaMifrats.
Among 170 aerial lifts in Japan, 73 lines are aerial tramways, including 1 funitel. 69 aerial tramways operate full season. See the above article for the full listing of aerial lifts in the country. Some notable aerial tramways include:
Murree Cable Car & Chair Lift includes two cable car rides and two chairlift rides. All the four rides are owned by a single company and a single ticket is issued for all the four rides which overlook Muree hills

Europe

"Tatev wings" aerial tramway is supported by three towers between its two terminals. One terminal is on a hill overlooking the village of Halidzor and the other is near Tatev Monastery, on the road to Tatev village. At top speed, the tramway travels at 37 kilometers per hour and the ride takes approximately 11 minutes, with its deepest drop at 360 meters aboveground. Two cabins operate at once, traveling in opposite directions. There are six cables altogether, each uniquely built for the specifications of this project. They are capable of carrying 10–15 times more than the nominal load. The tramway is equipped with a diesel drive unit which will operate immediately in the case of a power outage.
Wings of Tatev is:
  • the shortest, most picturesque and impressive route to Tatev Monastery;
  • Twelve minutes of unforgettable flight above the ravine of the fierce Vorotan River;
  • Celestial highway at the altitude of 320 m;
  • Cutting-edge engineering solutions by Austrian-Swiss Doppelmayr/ Garaventa Group.
Kaprun-Zell am See
There is a total of two cable car routes in Bosnia and Herzegovina, both in the Sarajevo regionTrebevićka žičara is a cable car route in the City of Sarajevo. First established in 1959 connecting the city with the mountain Trebević, it was destroyed at the start of Bosnian war in 1992 with the first victim of the Siege of Sarajevo being the guard of the hill station, Ramo Biber, who was killed on March 2, 1992, and in his honor nowadays the hill station carries his name as well as plaque is found inside of it. The cable car route was restored from ground up in 2017/2018 and opened once again for public use on 6 April 2018, the Day of the City of Sarajevo, more than a quarter of a century after it was destroyed. The reconstruction had a price tag of around 9 million €, including the cable car system, stations as well as work on the immediate surrounding of the stations and the route, with almost 3 million € being a donation of American-Dutch-Swiss physicist and businessman Edmund Offerman who is married to a Maja Offerman, a woman from Sarajevo with whom he visited the city in 1991 and took a ride in the cable car which left a big impact of him, promising to himself that he will do everything to get it going again after witnessing its destruction in 1992. The work on the cable car system was done by Italian company from South Tyrol, Leitner Ropeways. The valley station is on an elevation of 575 m in the old part of Sarajevo, just minutes of walking away from Baščaršija and Vijećnica, while the hill station is on an elevation of 1150 m. Raising 575 m up, the hill station provides a panoramic view of the city in the valley below while in the same time enabling the people a trip to nature and the biggest park and forest located within the City boundaries. The cable car route is 2158 m long, resting on 10 steel pillars, takes 7 minutes and 15 seconds to complete, with a capacity of 1200 persons an hour in one direction and is composed of 33 cabins in anthracite colour except five of them which are coloured in red, blue, green, yellow and black i.e. the Olympic colours as Mount Trebević hosts the bob track which was used for the 1984 Winter Olympics. The regular price for one person above the age of 6 is €15 for a round trip and working times are from 09:00 till 18:00.Cable car on Ravna planina is a cable car system within the Ski Center Ravna planina, 25 km away from Sarajevo and 5 km from Pale and mountain Jahorina. It was opened on 25 December 2017 and consists of 19 blue cabins which are able to transport up to 2200 persons per hour. The valley station is on elevation of 900 m while the hill station is on 1350 m, length of the route is 1350 m. Price is €2.5 for a round trip. The final plan is to connect the Ski Center Ravna planina with the Ski Center on Jahorina which would extend the route of the cable car system to almost 6 km.
In Switzerland, about 350 aerial tramways are in use, including:

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