The Standseilbahn Linth-Limmern is a funicular railway at the Linth-Limmern pumped storage plant in the Canton of Glarus in Switzerland. Built in 2013[1][2] for a transport capacity of 215 tonnes (237 tons),[3][4][5] the funicular moved the four transformers of the hydroelectric plant from Tierfehd at an elevation of 816 m (2,677 ft) to the machinery cavern of the Limmern plant at 1,697 m (5,568 ft).[6] This made it the highest-capacity funicular.[4] The 3,778-metre-long (12,395 ft) line, passing through a tunnel, has an elevation difference of 882 m (2,894 ft) and an incline of 24 per cent.[3] The single track has a passing loop[4] for the descending car.
Since the completion of the plant's expansion, the funicular is used by the staff of and visitors to the hydroelectric plant. It is owned by Kraftwerke Linth-Limmern AG (KLL), a joint venture of Axpo (85%) and the Canton of Glarus (15%).[7]
^ abcSeitz, Peter (2017), "Auf Bohren, Biegen und Brechen durch den Berg", Tec21 (in German) (19): 34–38
^Messmer, Stefan; Berger, Patric (December 2014), "Standseilbahn Tierfehd–Maschinenkaverne (SSB1)", Sicherheitstechnische Betrachtungen zu Standseilbahnen für den Zugang zu einem zukünftigen geologischen Tiefenlager, Arbeitsbericht NAB (in German), vol. 14–77, Nagra, pp. 39–40
Hug, Rudolf (2019), "Zugangsstollen 1 mit Standseilbahn", Jahrhundertwerk im Glarner Kalk: Pumpspeicherwerk Limmern (in German), Oberrohrdorf, pp. 49–60, ISBN978-3-9524084-7-6{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
