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Hong Kong young generations like to visit Ngong Ping 360 (昂坪360), Maokong Gondola (貓空), Ocean Park (海洋公園), because they have installed ropeway (cable car) system, visitors can browse the scenery as a bird.
In fact, Hong Kong had ropeway in Ching dynasty, it was dragon year in 1892, Taikoo Sugar Refinery (太古糖廠) operated a private ropeway system in North Point (北角), Hong Kong Island, from the cross between King's Road (英皇道) and Yau Man Street (祐民街), it had two carriages, each carriage contains 6 passengers, runing speed was 8 miles per hour (13 km per hour), up to Quarry Gap (大風坳, altitude: 340 m) of Mount Paker (柏架山).
As "Jardine, Matheson & Co. (渣甸洋行)" sold out its lands to Lee Garden amusement park (利園遊樂場) in 1920s, Taikoo Sugar Refinery (太古糖廠) moved out too, such private ropeway system was closed and disassembled in 1929.
Mr. Wu You Ju (吳友如, ? to 1893)'s "Islands Stories (海國叢談)" (19th century, Ching dynasty), it has a chapter called as "Ropeway in Causeway Bay (銅鑼飛棧)":
"It is difficult to walk in a mountain, people placed some plank to form cliff plank for easy access. Western European has so much ideas and technologies, they used an innovative method, it is called as ropeway (cable car) system. High mountain in Causeway Bay (銅鑼灣), Hong Kong (香港), it is hard to walk up into the peak! Taikoo Sugar Refinery (太古糖廠) set up a beautiful staff sanatorium at the peak, however, it is hard to access there, so they made carriage, this carriage contains 5 to 6 guys, quickly up to the peak, rapidly down to the mountain foot too, easily up and down, save manpower, people praise on it. One day, 6 foreigners got on the carriage, up to the peak, however, those steel rope was broken in midway, 6 guys were thrown down, just one was hurt, other five were all right."
香港的年青人喜歡遊玩昂坪360(Ngong Ping 360)、貓空(Maokong Gondola)、海洋公園(Ocean Park),因為那裡有索道纜車,在高空俯覽景色非常愜意!其實香港早在清朝光緒十八年(龍年;1892年),古早的年代,太古糖廠(Taikoo Sugar Refinery)已經營一條私人索道纜車系統。該私人索道纜車系統在香港島(Hong Kong Island),北角(North Point),英皇道(King's Road)與祐民街(Yau Man Street)的交界處,設有兩趟車廂(carriage),每趟車廂運載六名乘客(6 passengers),以每小時八英哩(13 km per hour in speed),登臨上柏架山(Mount Paker),大風坳(Quarry Gap, altitude: 340 m)。後來渣甸洋行(Jardine, Matheson & Co.)賣掉土地給利園遊樂
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