Caumasee-Lift Explained

Caumasee-Lift
Type:Funicular (inclined elevator)
Status:In operation (generally summer season)
Start:Caumasee
End:Via Dil Lag/Caumaseeweg
Stations:2
Open:1937
Event1label:Automation, extension
Event1:1990
Owner:Gemeinde Flims (since 1974); Genossenschaft Caumaseelift (1937-1974)
Stock:2 for 12 passengers each
Linelength:125m (410feet) (since 1990)
Tracks:2
Maxincline:approx. 35%
Conductionsystem:automated since 1990
Elevation M:1075
Website:caumasee.ch
Map State:uncollapsed

Caumasee-Lift is a funicular at Flims, Canton of Graubünden, Switzerland. It provides access to Caumasee at 1003 m - with its bath and restaurant - from an upper station at 1075 m, on Via Dil Lag in Flims Waldhaus. Since 1990, the installation consists of a pair of fully automated inclined elevators. The track has a length of 125 m at an incline of 35%. The upper station can be reached by foot in 10 minutes from the bus stop "Flims-Waldhaus, Caumasee“.

Hotel Waldhaus operated an extensive bath at the lake. The elevator was built in 1937, on the initiative of the owner of the hotel, by Wagons- und Aufzügefabrik Schlieren for Genossenschaft Caumaseelift. The cooperative sold it to the municipality of Flims in 1974.

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