OPERATIONAL STUDY / 01
THE CONTROL CONSOLE
A waterwheel-powered cable drive carries two rail cradles in opposite directions. Tune the inputs, release the brake and watch the transport physics unfold.
TRANSPORT CONTROLREADY
CRADLE A / UPHILL0%
LOWER BASINUPPER BASIN
HYDRAULICS & LOADS02 / 05
LIVE INSTRUMENTATION LIVE
ELAPSED TIME00:00
WATER CONSUMED0.0 m³
DRIVE FORCE0.0 kN
INCLINE ANGLE2.41°
VIEWER OPTIONS03 / 05
HERITAGE & MODEL NOTES04 / 05
A ship on a railway?
At Buczyniec, boats are loaded onto rail carriages and moved between two water levels. Water power drives steel hauling cables; the paired cradles travel in opposing directions.
The railway, waterwheel, boats and station architecture here are an original interpretive reconstruction, not a measured replica.
What drives the motion?
P = ρ · g · Q · H · η
A reduced-order model combines available hydraulic power, counterweighted gravity, rolling resistance, cable traction, a speed governor and terminal braking.
Illustrative teaching parameters — not certified equipment limits or instructions for operating the real incline.
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