Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Switzerland, already renowned for its engineering marvels, has unveiled the world’s steepest cable car in the Bernese Alps. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mürren’s precipitous cable car route is an attraction in its own right My neighbour on the flight to Zurich had the newspaper open ...

Cable cars have come a long way since their invention in the 19th century. The first cable cars were introduced in San Francisco in the 1870s, powered by a gripping mechanism and underground cables.

An electric compact excavator was airlifted to a summit in the Swiss Alps to help rebuild one of the world’s most iconic cable car routes – because diesel machines aren’t up to the job. Volvo ...

A spectacular new cable car has opened in Switzerland’s Bernese Alps. The Schilthorn Cableway takes riders up to the mountaintop revolving restaurant made famous in the James Bond movie “On Her ...