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The Keswick cable car: how about a railway, too?

Brian Dalton Purley Surrey CR8
25 May 2018
It’s a cable car system, not a gondola, says Brian Dalton, who thinks Keswick could support a railway too
It’s a cable car system, not a gondola, says Brian Dalton, who thinks Keswick could support a railway too

 

What twerp used the expression “gondola” in respect of a cable car system in the Lake District (‘Gondola could replace car trips to Lake District attraction’ LTT 11 May)? 

Gondola is a term used for the actual cars, the boxes swinging from the cables, but the use of the term to describe the system is wrong and should be avoided as there are other uses of gondola, as with the steamship on Windermere, for example.

As for managing car trips into Keswick, the old...

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