Grande Motte (tramway)

Téléphériques de la Grande Motte is an aerial tramway in the French ski-resort Espace Killy. The tramway climbs the mountain peak with the same name in Tignes.

The valley station can be reached using the funicular Du Perce Neige or a combination of chairlifts. From the mountain station one can enter the ski-slopes or climb to the top of the mountain some 300 metres higher.

Technical details

The system has two main cabins or gondolas, each carried on two main cables and a loop of a pulling cable and a secondary cable on the valley side of each cabin.

The mountain station is an open construction with a wide pulley returning the pull rope and the anchorage of the four main cables.

The powerplant is in the valley station and consists of two groups of electric powered motors, gearbox and a built-in hydraulic motor for emergency operation. The hydraulic motors can be operated using a diesel engine to run the oil-pump.

Grande Motte tramway
name value
Height valley station 3034 metre
Height mountain station 3456 metre
track length 1640 metre
vertical rise 422 metre
trip-time 5 minutes
max. speed 36 km/h (10 m/s)
capacity/cabin 115 +1
capacity/hour 1100-1200
Main power system electric
Number of pillars 1
max. incline 55%
# engines 2
Emergency system diesel hydrolic
Construction year 1975

Source and links

Details of this system are obtained from this page from the Ski-World database and this report on Remontees-Mechaniques.net (translated version)

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