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The Téléphérique du Salève is a passenger cable car connecting Veyrier (just across the French border from Geneva) with the Saleve ridge.
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The cable car was inaugurated in 1932, replacing a now-disused rack railway (for which one of the tunnels can still be seen walking up).
The base station in Veyrier (located a short walk from the border crossing) is at an altitude of 432m, with the top station at 1097m. The cable car climbs very steeply due to the near-vertical face of the ridge, with an ascension of 665m in an overall length of 1172m.
The cars carry 60 people each and at weekends during the summer the service runs every few minutes, with a less regular service during the week. A limited weekend-only service runs in winter.
Tickets are sold in both Euros and Swiss Francs and a discount is offered for holders of passes for Transports Publics Genevois.