There is a 'bucket lift' at Alagna, IT. You get in it from a platform on top of a building while it is moving. It holds two people and you feel like a gladiator in a chariot. My brother loaded first and the chariot swung forward as I started to load; I almost missed it. On top of that, the platform ends abruptly many meters above the ground. Sorry, no pics. Does anyone know of this lift?
Another lift at Alagna is a two stage tram. Your ride the lower section up to a midway, change trams and continue. They run off the same drive cable so the midway station is exactly in the middle. They stop running the lift at lunch for an hour.
The mid-station bull wheels.
There is/was a T-Bar at La Grave that would start up along a cliff beside (on) a glacier. The 'towers' were attached to the cliff. It made a turn to the left and you got off the lift farther on up. Then you skied down to the middle of the glacier and picked up the same lift. This 'station' was suspended from towers and weighted to bring it down to the glacier. It was running approximately perpendicular to the first part you already rode and continued up to the top.
This is a picture near the left turn on the first part and the first part return line going off perpendicular and (of course) back to this elaborate set of bull wheels and eventually back to where you initially loaded.