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funicular railway
noun
- a short, very steep railway having two parallel sets of tracks, upon each of which runs a car or train raised or lowered by means of a cable that simultaneously lowers or raises the other car or train in such a way that the two are approximately counterbalanced.
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of funicular railway1
Example Sentences
In November 2000, a cable car on a funicular railway caught fire in a mountain tunnel in Kaprun, Austria, killing 155 people.
The project, next to the historic Angels Flight funicular railway, is in De León’s district, and it may not receive the go-ahead from City Hall without his support.
Two cars operate on the funicular railway, each with a capacity of 40 passengers.
The park - home to a zoo, several hiking trails and a funicular railway - launched anti-litter campaigns last year urging drink vendors to switch from plastic to glass cups, and started classifying garbage into separate bins.
A family in the U.K. has one of the country’s smallest funicular railways – a type of cable railway system on an incline – at their home.
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