Forsby-Köping Limestone Cableway
The Forsby-Köping limestone cableway, commonly referred to in Swedish as Kalklinbanan, was a 42 km aerial tramway running from Forsby in VingÃ¥ker municipality to industrial town Köping, Sweden, Köping in central Sweden. Its final destination is the factory at the port of Köping, where cement was manufactured until 1978, and later various limestone derivatives. The cableway was Europe's longest at the time of construction. It was later superseded by a handful of longer cableways, notably the Norsjö aerial tramway, all of which were demolished during the 1960s–1980s. It was taken out of service in 1997 but kept in working order. By that time all longer industrial cableways had been demolished making it at present the world's longest cableway in working order. Despite its officially affirmed value as cultural heritage the cableway is being demolished starting June 26, 2013. The fully functioning cableway will be run one last time as carriages are removed from the track an ...
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