Cable railway

Trwnc incline at the Vivian Quarry^[1] showing two permanently attached platform wagons. Slate trucks were pushed onto the horizontal tops of these wagons to travel on the incline.

A cable railway is a railway that uses a cable, rope or chain to haul trains. It is a specific type of cable transportation.

The most common use for a cable railway is to move vehicles on a steeply graded line that is too steep for conventional locomotives to operate on – this form of cable railway is often called an incline or inclined plane, or, in New Zealand, a jigline,^[2] or jig line.^[3] One common form of incline is the funicular – an isolated passenger railway where the cars are permanently attached to the cable.^[4] In other forms, the cars attach and detach to the cable at the ends of the cable railway. Some cable railways are not steeply graded - these are often used in quarries to move large numbers of wagons between the quarry to the processing plant.

^ Cite error: The named reference Carrington was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ "Lower Mangahao Dam site - view up jigline". collections.tepapa.govt.nz. 1920–1921. Retrieved 2023-11-02.
^ "The jig line. Nelson Evening Mail". paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. 26 August 1938. Retrieved 2023-11-02.
^ Walter Hefti: Schienenseilbahnen in aller Welt. Schiefe Seilebenen, Standseilbahnen, Kabelbahnen. Birkhäuser, Basel 1975, ISBN 3-7643-0726-9 (in German)

[Carrington-1] Cite error: The named reference Carrington was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[2] "Lower Mangahao Dam site - view up jigline". collections.tepapa.govt.nz. 1920–1921. Retrieved 2023-11-02.

[3] "The jig line. Nelson Evening Mail". paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. 26 August 1938. Retrieved 2023-11-02.

[hefti-4] Walter Hefti: Schienenseilbahnen in aller Welt. Schiefe Seilebenen, Standseilbahnen, Kabelbahnen. Birkhäuser, Basel 1975, ISBN 3-7643-0726-9 (in German)

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