The Wellington Cable Car is a funicular railway in Wellington, New Zealand between Lambton Quay, the main shopping street, and Kelburn, a suburb in the hills overlooking the central city, rising 120 m over a length of 612 m. It is widely recognised as a symbol of Wellington.
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“To be where little cable cars climb halfway to the stars.”
—Douglass Cross (b. 1920)
“Something is about to happen. Leaves are still.
Two shores away, a man hammering in the sky.
Perhaps he will fall.”
—Alfred Wellington Purdy (b. 1919)
“To be where little cable cars climb halfway to the stars.”
—Douglass Cross (b. 1920)
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—Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965)