Material cable car Feldmoos – Chli Titlis

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The Feldmoos – Chli Titlis material ropeway was built in 1979 in a 9-month construction period by Habegger from Thun for the construction of a multi-purpose telecommunications system on the Titlis , which in addition to transporting building materials with a weight of up to 3.8 tonnes could be used for the transport of up to 20 people. After completion of the multi-purpose telecommunications system on the Titlis, the system was dismantled in 1986.

Technical specifications

The cable car had 5 supports and a total inclined length of 4675 meters. The suspension cable only rested on four supports, the topmost support at the mountain station was only required for the retourseil (the pulling cable) so that it could not collide with the suspension cable due to the long uppermost span and the correspondingly large slack. The most outstanding feature of this cable car was the longest span ever realized on a cable car with a length of 3467.1 meters. The Federal Aviation Office required a special marking for this span : a flight warning cone was provided every 100 meters and a flight safety lamp every 500 meters . Their power supply was initially provided by a battery-backed wind generator , which, however, caused technical problems. In January 1983, instead, the longest free-hanging electrical cable in Europe (3400 m) with power supply from the Titlis was installed for the river safety lights. The two carrying ropes of the railway were 46 mm in diameter, the hauling rope 38 mm in diameter.

The Feldmoos – Chli Titlis material ropeway, which was owned by Habegger during the entire operating time, had only one vehicle. It was driven by a Ward-Leonard-fed direct current motor with a power of 301 kW in the valley station. The maximum speed of the train was 6 m / s to 10 m / s.

  • Height of valley station: 1599.8 m above sea level M.
  • Height of mountain station: 3,026.65 m above sea level M.
  • Horizontal distance between the stations: 4326.65 m
  • Difference in altitude: 1429.9 m
  • Effective length inclined: 4675.1 m
  • Mean slope: 33%
  • Maximum incline: 80.5%
  • Number of supports: 4 (return rope 5)
  • Maximum post height: 37.6 m
  • Largest span: 3476.2 m (top)
  • Maximum travel speed: 10 m / s
  • Carrying rope diameter: 2 × 46 mm
  • Pull rope diameter: 38 mm
  • Drive: DC motor, supply via Ward-Leonard converter
  • Nominal power drive: 301 kW (max. 515 kW)

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See also

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Assumed location: The traces visible at this point in Google Earth match the descriptions in the VST Revue 1979.