In order to accommodate intermediate levels, turnouts were used to allow wagons to leave and join the cable railway part way along its length.
The cable railway line descends 415 metres through sandstone cliffs, via a rock tunnel with a maximum gradient of 52 degrees.
The concept was similar to the cable railway system but with pistons suspended beneath the railcar.
It can be considered as a specialised type of cable railway.
A specific type of cable railway is the funicular, which is a cable railway with the cars permanently fixed to the cable.
By the 1820s a number of proposals had been made for canals, and cable railway had been proposed costing upwards of 500,000, but all these ideas had come to nought.
Tickets not only cover the federal and private railways on standard gauge, but also with one ticket people can go on private mountain railways, on buses and on cable railways.
