title: Valley station
text: # Valley station
  
  The valley station is the lower terminal of an aerial lift, cable car, gondola lift, chairlift, rack railway or ski lift. The valley station is the counterpart of a top station. Cable cars may be boarded at both stations. The valley station is always at a lower elevation than the top station.
  
  Valley stations on a cable car may be ordinary buildings with a docking bay or open steel structures. They are oriented in the direction of the cables. Gondola lifts, by contrast always have horizontally-oriented valley stations.
  
  ## Gallery
  
  * Chäserrugg cable car, Unterwasser, Canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland
  * Furtschellas, Engadin, Switzerland
  * Finkenberg gondola lift, Zillertal, Austria
  * [Carmenna Chairlift, Arosa, Italy
  
  ## Examples
  
  | Name | Valley station: | Top station: |
  | - | - | - |
  | Klewenalpbahn | Beckenried (420 m) | Klewenalp (1590 m) |
  | Titlisbahn | Engelberg (1000 m) | Titlis (3020 m) |
  | Säntisbahn | Schwägalp (1345 m) | Säntis (2503 m) |
  | Klein Matterhorn-Bahn | Zermatt (1619 m) | Klein Matterhorn (3885 m) |
  | Stockhornbahn | Erlenbach (720 m) | Stockhorn (2190 m) |
  | Weisshornbahn | Obersee Arosa (1750 m) | Weisshorn (2650 m) |
  