Talk:Snaefell Mountain Cable Car/@comment-82.32.22.88-20190116111749

The Snaefell Mountain Railway is most emphatically NOT a cable car line, using either British or American tertminology. In Britain a cable car is a mode of transport where the carriage is suspended above the ground on a cable and is normally, but not always used to access mountains.

The American usage is to describe a carriage running on surface tracks hauled by a cable, normally carried on pulleys between the running rails which are usually but not always concealed in a slot between the running rails, as in San Francisco.

The Snaefell Mountain Railweay is in effect an electric tramway with an additional rail called a 'Fell Rail' after its inventopr which is situated between the running rails. Origionally intended to assist the tramcars to climb the mountain, it was soon overtaken by technology and has instead in more recent times been used solely for emergency brtaking. No cable is used.