Norsjö ropeway

The cable car Norsjö is a 13.163 km long lift that between Örträsk and Mensträsk in the community Norsjö in the Swedish province of Västerbotten. The cable car Norsjö went into operation in 1989.

There is a gondola with the construction of cableways, each with a rope and pull rope and with 30 detachable cabins, each with four seats, the easy route at a speed of 10 km / h ( 2.7 m / s) in around half cover hours. A total of three kilometers of the journey lead over streams, lakes and bogs.

Linbanan Boliden Kristine Berg

Today's cable car Norsjö is the rebuilt section IV of the former Linbanan cars - Kristine Berg, a material ropeway between cars, Norsjö and Kristine Berg, Lycksele in Västerbotten, which was the longest cable car in the world with 96 kilometers. It was opened in 1943, to continue along the railway to the port to transport ore from the Kristinebergsgruvan, a mine of today's Boliden AB and Boliden over the place in Skellefteå. It was divided into eight sections. The Erzkübel had an empty weight of 200 kg and a payload of 1000 kg. This material ropeway were a total of 12 million tons of copper, lead, zinc, silver and gold ores transported to its setting in the year 1987 in hoisting cages. The section Örträsk - Mensträsk was then converted for tourist purposes for passenger ropeway.