Kalklinbanan
The Kalklinbanan ( lime cable car ) is a 42 km long material cable car from the Forsby limestone quarry near Kalkbrottsvillorna between Lake Hjälmarensee and Lake Öljaren in the municipality of Vingåker to the limestone works on a foothill of Lake Mälaren near Köping .
description
The two- cable gondola has four sections, three angular stations and 12 tensioning stations, where the suspension ropes are tensioned with weights from 35 to 40 t. Each section is driven by an electric motor. The 235 reinforced concrete cable car pillars were usually erected every 180 - 200 m, including four to cross a foothill of the Hjälmarensee. The total of 750 buckets with a payload of 1200 kg hang on a drive with four rollers and travel at a speed of 10 km / h. The cable car has a conveying capacity of 94 t / h.
history
The cable car was built between 1939 and 1941 by 300 men from AB Nordströms Linbanor . At the inauguration it was the longest cable car in the world (the 75 km long Massaua-Asmara cable car in Eritrea was destroyed in the same year), but in 1943 the Linbanan Boliden – Kristineberg , built by the same company, was opened holds the record.
The forsby-köping limestone cableway has transported in 56 years of operation, a total of 25 million tons of limestone from the quarry to the plant at Köping. During the period of intensive housing construction, it was operated by 40 people in shifts around the clock. In the record year 1967 it transported 600,000 tons of limestone.
In 1997 the operation was stopped and the transport switched to trucks. The cable car was initially maintained and kept operational and was declared an industrial monument in 2003 . The Kalklinbanans Week was held once a year , during which the cable car was put into operation with a large audience participation and art events took place. In November 2009 the operator Nordkalk decided that further maintenance and future operation was no longer an option due to a lack of funds.
The demolition of the cable car started on June 26, 2013. Attempts to keep the Malmberga – Granhammar section as an industrial museum failed in 2014 due to resistance from individual landowners.
Web links
- Kalklinbanan Forsby-Köping
- Kalklinbanan mellan Forsby och Köping. Archived from the original on June 26, 2013 ; Retrieved January 21, 2016 (Swedish).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Markägare stoppar linbanan. In: Bärgslagsbladet / Arboga Tidning. April 7, 2014, accessed July 17, 2015 (Swedish).
Coordinates: 59 ° 9 ′ 31.8 ″ N , 15 ° 56 ′ 44.9 ″ E