Table Mountain Aerial Cableway will be closed from Monday, July 27, to Sunday, August 9, for scheduled annual maintenance. 

Work includes cleaning the ropes and slack rope tests, renewing switches and bearings where necessary, servicing the main gearbox, generators and back-up generators, as well as general electronic component changes and control checks. The cable car cabins will also undergo a facelift.

“This year’s maintenance will also include a haul rope change,” says the Cableway’s Technical Manager, Gaziem du Toit. “This happens approximately every five years.”

Swiss engineers assist with the work in order to meet the highest global cableway standards set by the Swiss Governing Body for Cableways.