The Forsby-Köping Limestone Cableway

From the limestone quarry at Forsby inwards Vingåker municipality , to the cement manufacturing flora at Köping inwards primal Sweden , ane time ran ane of the world’s longest aerial cableway. Buckets of limestone travelled for 42 kilometers higher upwardly the greenish fields , through the woods in addition to over the lake Hjälmaren. The Forsby-Köping limestone cableway , besides known every bit the Kalklinbanans , in addition to its string of dangling atomic pose out 26 buckets was a ane time familiar sight from European Highway E20.

The cableway was built inwards 1939 to carry crushed limestone extracted from the quarry at Forsby to Skånska Cement’s cement manufacturing flora at the industrial town of Koping. At the fourth dimension of its structure in addition to opening , the cableway was Europe's longest. Although the championship lasted non to a greater extent than than a twosome of years , when longer cableways were built , it eventually became the world's longest cableway inwards working lodge when the other cableways were demolished or cutting short.

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