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The days the rope
did not turn.
The fahrdienst writes an entry whenever the line does something a passenger would want explained — a hold, a closure, a change to the interval. The good days do not need an entry.
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What a wind hold actually is
The line stopped for four hours on Thursday. Here is the number it stopped on, who read it, and why we would rather publish the threshold than the apology.
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The autumn rope scan, and why we close for eight weeks
Every October the line shuts and a magnetic head runs the whole 4,180 metres of haul rope looking for broken wires you cannot see from outside.
4 min read