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The Skitube was built to provide better access to the skifields and resorts in the area during winter. The single road which provided the only access before the construction of the railway was (and still is) often blocked by adverse weather conditions. The 8.5 km-long, standard gauge railway was built between October 1984This page is about the year 1984. For other uses of 1984, see 1984 (disambiguation). 1984 is a leap year starting on Sunday (link shows calendar). Events January January 1 Brunei becomes a fully independent state January 1 AT&T is broken up into 22 indepe and MarchFor alternative meanings, see March (disambiguation). March is the third month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 31 days. Named for Mars, the Roman god of war. In ancient Rome, March was called Martius. It was named after the war god ( Mars) and 19881988 is a leap year starting on Friday (click on link for calendar). Events January January 2 Georgia celebrates its bicentennial statehood. January 9 Connecticut celebrates its bicentennial statehood. January 26 Australia celebrates its bicentennial day.. The majority of the railway is underground, comprising the Bilston and Blue Cow tunnels, being 3.3 and 2.6 km long respectively. The depth of the tunnels varies from between 4 and 550 mFor other uses of "metre" and "meter", see Metre (disambiguation). The metre is the basic unit of length in the International System of Units (SI: Systeme International d'Unites). It is defined as the length of the path travelled by light in absolute vacu, and their diameterIn geometry, a diameter of a circle is any straight line segment that passes through the center and whose endpoints are on the circular boundary, or, in more modern usage, the length of such a line segment. When using the word in the more modern sense, on between 5 and 5.5m.

Each of the carriageA railroad car (or, more briefly, car , also known as an item of rolling stock in British parlance, is a vehicle on a railroad or railway that is not a locomotive one that provides another purpose than purely haulage, although some types of car are poweres, which typically make up a 4-carriage trainThis article is about trains in rail transport. For other types of train see train (disambiguation Coventry, England In rail transport, a train consists of several connected rail vehicles that are capable of being moved together along a guideway to transp, is 16.8m long, 3.8m wide, and can carry 225 passengers at once. This provides for the movement of around 4,500 people per hour.

The rack system Skitube operates on was designed by the Swiss engineer Roman Abt , and was first used in Germany's Harz Mountains in 1885.