cable car system

C1080
concept

A cable car system is a transportation network in which vehicles are pulled by continuously moving cables, typically used to move people or goods along steep or inaccessible routes such as mountainsides or urban hills.

All labels observed (51)

Label Occurrences
mountain railway 62
funicular railway 52
aerial tramway 51

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: cable car system
Generated description
A cable car system is a transportation network in which vehicles are pulled by continuously moving cables, typically used to move people or goods along steep or inaccessible routes such as mountainsides or urban hills.

Instances (283)

Instance Via concept surface
Al Hada cable car aerial tramway
Powell Street terminal cable car terminal
Jasper SkyTram aerial tramway
Belchenbahn cable car cable car
Belchenbahn aerial cable car
Mont Faron cable car aerial tramway
Matterhorn Glacier Paradise cable car aerial cable car
Grindelwald–First cable car
Manhattan station at 59th Street and Second Avenue aerial tramway station
Vogel cable car cable car
Bernese Oberland Railway mountain railway
Wengernalp Railway mountain railway
Cannon Mountain Aerial Tramway aerial tramway
Lötschberg railway line mountain railway
Cablebús urban gondola lift system
Brienz Rothorn Railway mountain railway
Powell–Hyde cable car line cable car line
Campo Imperatore cable car cable car
Lynton
surface form: Lynton and Lynmouth Cliff Railway
funicular railway
Heidelberg Mountain Railway funicular railway
Brünig railway line mountain railway
Mount Mitake
surface form: Mitake Tozan Railway
cable car line
Untersbergbahn aerial cable car
Mount Tamalpais Scenic Railway mountain railway
Olivet funicular railway car
OCT East cable car system cable car network
Elevador da Glória funicular railway
Grands Montets cable car (historically)
surface form: Grands Montets cable car
aerial tramway
Broadmoor Manitou and Pikes Peak Cog Railway mountain railway
Höllentalbahn mountain railway
Mount Washington Cog Railway mountain railway
Khulo cable car aerial tramway
Elevador da Bica funicular railway
Monongahela Incline funicular railway
Elevador do Lavra funicular railway
Landquart–Davos railway line mountain railway
Jaworzyna Krynicka cable car gondola lift
Davos–Filisur railway line mountain railway
Black Forest Railway (Schwarzwaldbahn) mountain railway
Rua Câmara Pestana
surface form: Elevador do Lavra
funicular railway
Hohensalzburg Fortress funicular funicular railway
Tbilisi Aerial Tramway aerial tramway
Sea to Sky Gondola aerial tramway
Flégère cable car aerial cable car
Brévent cable car aerial cable car
Arthurs Seat Eagle gondola aerial cable car system
Saint-Gervais–Bettex gondola aerial cable car
Kobe Nunobiki Ropeway aerial tramway
Lucerne–Stans–Engelberg railway line mountain railway
Rax region
surface form: Raxseilbahn cable car
aerial tramway