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Funicular

noun
1.
A railway up the side of a mountain pulled by a moving cable and having counterbalancing ascending and descending cars.  Synonyms: cable railway, funicular railway.





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"Funicular" Quotes from Famous Books



... Upon a certain funicular at a mountain resort, where the cars pass one another up and down every twenty minutes, the conductors salute one another stiffly each time ...
— Germany and the Germans - From an American Point of View (1913) • Price Collier
... hardly recognize the site of them. A society from Morbegno (Valtellina) has acquired rights over the timber, and is hewing down as fast as it can. They import their own workmen from north Italy, and have built at a cost of two million francs (say the newspapers) a special funicular railway, 23 kilometres long, to carry the trunks from the mountain to Francavilla at its foot, where they are sawn up and conveyed to the railway station of Cerchiara, near Sibari. This concession, I am told, extends to ...
— Old Calabria • Norman Douglas


Words linked to "Funicular" :   railway line, railroad, funicular railway, railway system, car, cable car, railway, railroad line, cable railway, cable


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