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| Vanoise Express due to re-open on 20 Dec 2008 | |
| Date added: 28 August 2008 | |
| Plan Peisey is open for skiing from 13 December, with the Vanoise Express cable car due to open a week later on Saturday 20 December. | |
| The first of the four new cables that will carry the Vanoise Express cable car, connecting the two halves of the Paradiski area (Savoie), were delivered on Friday the 20th June 2008. Work fitting and adjusting the tension of the first cable started on the 2nd July. The operation will be carried out at the same time as the existing cables are removed. A second cable will be fitted in the same way at the end of July, followed by the third in August with the final cable being installed in September. Installation of the four new cables should be completed by mid-October, leaving the rest of the autumn for tests in preparation for the re-opening of the Vanoise Express. Each load-bearing cable is more than 1.8 kilometres long, 7.5 cm in diameter and weighs 30 kg per metre, making a total weight of over 55 tonnes. The cables will be spooled out from the Peisey station (elevation 1,612 m) to the station at Les Coches (1548 m) and will span a distance of 1,824 metres. |
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