Grenoble-Bastille Cable Car
The Grenoble- Bastille Cable Car (French: Téléphérique de Grenoble Bastille ) is a cable car that connects the city center of Grenoble with the situated high above the city Bastille, a fortress from the first half of the 19th century. There you can enjoy a magnificent panorama of the city and its alpine surroundings of the Vercors to Mont Blanc.
Historically
Opened on September 29, 1934 cable car is the first urban cable car in the world. It was built on behalf of the city by a consortium consisting of the company Adolf Bleichert & Co. ( cable car), Neyret - Beylier et Para ( steel construction) and Milliat ( civil engineering ). The former valley station was located right on the banks of the Isère and bridged the past behind her Quai Stéphane Jay. It was built according to the system " Bleichert - Zuegg " aerial tramway with the frequently used by Bleichert twelve-sided cabins for 15 people who had a blue color in this case. In the valley station were located the drive and the anchoring of the two supporting ropes, in the mountain station hung the tension weights for the suspension ropes and the traction cable. Had the web as well as today's, a 23 m high pillar in the upper half of the route.
Cabins
1951, these cabins were replaced by larger, rectangular with rounded edges cabins for 21 passengers. These cabins built by Crouzier wore the colors of Grenoble, ie red and yellow. In 1959 the valley station was expanded to include a waiting room for 100 people, of which one could overlook the Isère and the Bastille.
In 1976, the cable car was fundamentally renewed. She received a new valley station between the Quai Stéphane Jay and Rue Hector Berlioz. In the modern building, the actual cable car station is located on the first floor behind a glass facade, from which protrude the red-painted rails. The hill station was only slightly modified. Designed by the French cable car engineer Denis Creissels and Pomagalski built (based in Grenoble) cable car differs from its predecessors by the popularly known as soap bubbles ( bulles ) designated round nacelles made of aluminum and plexiglass. Technically speaking, it is a two-cable group orbit with two track ropes and a revolving pull rope on which two groups are attached with 5 gondolas in winter two groups with four gondolas in the summer. As with a gondola also ride the gondolas in the two stations to a large disc around in the other direction. Since the gondolas are clamped fix on the hawser, the hawser is stopped, when they are in the stations ( and slows down at the crossing over the cable car tower ).
The gondolas have drives with four wheels. Your speed is max. 6 m / s (21,6 km / h). The drive is in the new valley station, the tension weights of each 46 tonnes per rope and 24.4 tonnes for the pull rope in turn are housed in the hill station.
Today's cable car starts at an altitude of 208 m and ends in the mountain station at 472 m. It therefore has a height difference of 264 m. Your oblique length is 700 m.
The cable car is operated by the Régie du Téléphérique de Grenoble Bastille, a établissement public à caractère industriel et commercial.