Help, the felsenegg train is at a standstill!

fire red gondola, the aerial cableway Adliswil-Felsenegg is an aerial tramway departs this Tuesday comfortably uphill. Then a jolt, and the nightmare of every passenger, is true: The cabin remains standing and is gewippt by the Wind easily back and forth – a good 30 meters above the ground. For a fraction of a second, the 14 travelers going deadly quiet.

On the left most of the students of the 5 act. and 6.Class from Adliswil. Many of them were already in the previous year, at the annual salvage exercise, the felsenegg railway. "I'm not easy, the rope breaks anyway," says one of them.

one and a Half hours later, it's all over

a Few minutes after the stoppage of the railway employees as well as those of the Sihltal-Zürich-Uetliberg-Bahn initiate the rescue operation. A group positioned under the gondola, while rescuers Damian Berger climbed the 40 Meter high support pole, and then using the cable driving device, the pull rope runs along. He opens the roof of the gondola and turns with a cheerful "Grüezi mitenand" on the seat.

As he opens the floor hatch, but it is also the one or the other pupils a little bit queasy: "you, I think what I need now is a stunning," says one to his teacher. The passengers will be left with a descender in the depth.

around one and a half hours later the last of them back to the safe ground under the feet, and are with this Exercise, the annual revision of the felsenegg rail work is completed. The following Online diary gives insight into the six-week review work:

Starting next Saturday, 06. April 2019 is the operation according to the summer schedule resumed.

for More information about the roadmap can be found here: www.laf.ch (Tages-Anzeiger)

Created: 03.04.2019, 12:05 PM