A cable tramway was built to carry ferry passengers from the West Seattle dock up the bluff where the Improvement Company's main development projects were.

The site of the current Independent Theatre on Ridge Street, North Sydney via the original cable tramway opened in May 1886.

Through electric services from Milsons Point began when the original cable tramway was electrified in February 1900.

The world's longest single-section cable aerial tramway began service in 1966.

This was Melbourne's only privately built and operated cable tramway.

Access to the radars was initially by a road built up the side of the mountain, later a cable tramway was built.

Beside this there is the shelter from the former cable tramway which was moved to the park when the tramway ceased to operate in 1927.

In 1893 a cable tramway was built along Bank Road.

Materials were hauled along the cable tramway in tubs by a steam powered winch.

Few may realise that Edinburgh's cable tramways were once the most extensive such system in Europe.