Technology
The Peak Tram is a funicular railway, with the following technical parameters:
- Length: 1364 metres
- Height: 368 metres
- Maximum Steepness: 48%
- Track Gradient: 4 ~ 27 degrees
- Cars: 2 2-car train sets
- Car Builder: Gangloff AG, Switzerland
- Capacity: 120 passengers per train set
- Configuration: Single track with passing loop
- Journey time: 4.9 minutes
- Maximum speed: 6 metres per second
- Track gauge: 4'11.85" foot (1520 mm)
- Traction: Electricity
Only a 1956 fourth generation all aluminum car survives and displayed at the upper terminal. All original cars as well as second and thrd generation cars no longer exists. A replica of the first car is displayed in the Peak Tram Historical Gallery.
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Famous quotes containing the word technology:
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—John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908)
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