Top Cable Car Station frame

<body text="white" link="yellow" vlink="yellow"> <font size="2" face="Geneva,Arial">Each year the Cable Car carries thousands of visitors to the top of the Rock. This panorama shows the spectacular views visitors can enjoy, stretching south towards Africa where the Atlantic Ocean meets the Mediterranean Sea and to the west over the town area across the Bay of Gibraltar and out towards Spain (north).</font> <p><font color="white" face="Geneva,Arial" size="2">The present Cable Car was originally constructed in April 1966 by Von Roll of Switzerland, and was extensively refurbished by the manufacturers in 1986. Within the Top Station complex there is a Self Service Restaurant.</font></p> <p><font size="2" face="Geneva,Arial">The Signal Hill Battery was one of the Upper Ridge batteries and is now the site of the top station for the cable car, superimposed in red below.</font></p> <p><font size="2" face="Geneva,Arial">Signal Hill battery was built on the site of the old Signal Station of 1727, it is also referred to as Signal Battery. It stood on the ridge, 1,200 feet above sea level and near the top of the Old Moorish Wall. In 1773 it was armed and later mounted a 6-pdr. In January 1892 it mounted one 6-inch BL QF gun on a Vavasseur centre pivot mounting, and in 1899 emplacements were prepared for two 6-inch guns. The approved armament in 1901 recommended four 6-inch guns, two with a range of 10,000 yards to bear on land batteries and, of course, the Bay, and two onto the Mediterranean. Also in 1901 two 12-pdr.QF 12cwt guns on QF MK. I 32° depression mountings were put into two emplacements south of the 6-inch guns and remained there until 1906. This was a position for two 3-inch 30-cwt. anti-aircraft guns during the Second World War mounted on the pits of the old 6-inch guns. A 40-mm Bofors was also installed in the area.</font></p> <div align="left"> <p><font size="2" face="Geneva,Arial">The ruins adjacent to the cable car station are part of a set of support buildings which included a guard house and stores. All are in a poor condition which is typical of old MOD properties which are left to decay before they are handed over to Gibraltar government control.</font></p> <p><font size="2" face="Geneva,Arial">The photograph below shows the </font><font color="white" face="Geneva,Arial" size="2">remains of Gibraltar's first Cable Car (although it took the form of a basket into which a man, ammunition or supplies might be transported to the gun emplacements.</font></div> </body>