Starý Smokovec–Hrebienok funicular

The Starý Smokovec–Hrebienok funicular (Slovak: Pozemná lanová dráha Starý Smokovec – Hrebienok) is a funicular between Starý Smokovec and the tourist complex of peak of Hrebienok in the High Tatras, Slovakia.

Starý Smokovec–Hrebienok funicular
Station at Starý Smokovec
Overview
Coordinates49°8′43.85″N 20°13′14.14″E
Service
TypeFunicular
Technical
Line length1,937 m (6,355 ft)
Track gauge1,000 mm (3 ft 3 3⁄8 in) metre gauge
Maximum incline14.8%
Funicular car (1960s Ceretti-Tanfani model) at the terminus of Starý Smokovec
No. 2 rolling stock of the funicular

History

First rolling stocks were ordered by Matejka és Kriger (Matejka Vince and Kriger Vilmos), a company based in Poprad, then part of Hungary, inside Austria-Hungary from the legendary Ganz Works. After several years of preparations, first tourists were transferred by the funicular on 20 December 1908. It worked on the original track up to 1967.[1]

Great reconstruction of the line took place in 1967. Technology for the whole line was provided by the Italian Ceretti-Tanfani company. 130 instead of 45 people could travel at the same time with a stock. As modern technology was implemented, duration of the route decreased from 11 to 7 minutes.

Two old rolling stocks were replaced with new ones in November 2007.[2][3] New rolling stocks were made by Garaventa, a company based in Bern, Switzerland. Doppelmayr, an Austrian company helped in the creation of the new funicular, which has a capacity of 160 person, 30 more than the older one.

Operation

The line has the following parameters:[4]

Number of cars 2
Configuration Single track with passing loop etc.
Track length 1,937 metres (6,355 ft)
Rise 247 metres (810 ft)
gradient 14.8%
Track gauge 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 3⁄8 in) metre gauge
Capacity 1600 passengers per hour
Maximum speed 10 metres per second (22.4 mph)
Travel time 4.5 minutes

References
  1. "Százkoronás akció a százéves tarajkai (Hrebienok) siklón". Archived from the original on 2013-06-20.
  2. Svjatoslav Dohovič (6 November 2007). "Lanovka na Hrebienok je už na koľajniciach" [Cableway to Hrebienok is already on the rails]. Pravda (in Slovak).
  3. "képgaléria" [picture gallery]. Pravda. Archived from the original on 2012-07-16. Retrieved 2013-06-10.
  4. "Pozemná lanovka Starý Smokovec - Hrebienok" [The funicular Stary Smokovec - Hrebienok]. www.lanovky.sk (in Slovak). Retrieved 18 October 2013.
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