14 pictures to step through...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/kent/content/image_galleries/thames_gateway_futuristic_gallery...

On Sat, 23 Aug 2008, John Rowland wrote:

WHAT.

Did i miss Chatham being built on a mountainside?

tom

Tom Anderson wrote:

It's a cut-price Schwebebahn. Remember the plan for cable cars from East
India Station to the Dome?
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/7069/tpftla_e.html#DomeAerial

On Aug 23, 4:51 pm, "John Rowland"
journeyflow.spamspam.demon.co.uk> wrote:

Eh ?

How is a Schwebebahn a cut down cableway ?

Thats a bit like saying a footpath is a cutdown travolator - the two
are different applications using different systems for different
reasons.

John Rowland wrote:

... which incidentally looks like a Magic Roundabout... could someone
confirm that before I add it to Wiki's list of Magic Roundabouts. Does it
have a name?

D7666 wrote:

I didn't say it was, I said a cableway is a cut price Schwebebahn.
The reason I made the comparison is that the Schwebebahn exists because of
the River Wupper, and I suspect that the cableway is being planned for
Chatham because of the Medway

Well, it is.

On Aug 26, 9:12 am, "John Rowland"
journeyflow.spamspam.demon.co.uk> wrote:

OK I see what you mean.

But surely even then the schebebahn runs *along* the course of the
river but cablecars tend to go across things ?

On Tue, 26 Aug 2008, D7666 wrote:

Cablecars tend to go *up* things. Are there any that are built in the
complete absence of a steep slope? By 'complete absence', i mean without a
slope anywhere along; Barcelona's, for example, is on the level between
the foot of Montjuic and the port, but it's there because there's a big
slope from the foot of Montjuic to the top of Montjuic.

Anyway, my reading was that John was being somewhat silly. A cable-car is
a ludicrous thing to build in Chatham, so it seems fit that the
justification for it is also ludicrous.

tom

On Aug 26, 12:22 pm, Tom Anderson wrote:

On the contrary , the locals would love it. They could use the cars
are a perfect place to get boozed up in then leave their empties and
pools of vomit behind. Naturally each trip would involve optionally
swinging back and forth in the car as hard as possible to try and get
it to hit something and lets not forget the breaking a window game so
they can chuck stuff down onto people and property beneath. Also think
of the golden (or should that been dayglo green?) opportunity the
disciples of TOX03 would have. - their sigs passing over everyone all
day continuously.

B2003

In message , at
12:22:22 on Tue, 26 Aug 2008, Tom Anderson
remarked:

The cable-car at Alton Towers goes across a valley, rather than "up a
hill".