NOUN
- a railway up the side of a mountain pulled by a moving cable and having counterbalancing ascending and descending cars
How To Use funicular railway In A Sentence
- We decided this was the perfect opportunity to finally ride the Bergbahn aka funicular railway to the top of the Koenigstuhl, or "King's Chair", the highest hill near Heidelberg. Archive 2007-01-01
- I could have descended the hill by funicular railway, only there seemed little point queueing to squeeze myself into an overcrowded carriage for the one minute journey.
- First, it required a metro back into town (nearest metro stop just over a kilometre away) then a train out north, then a tram up a very steep hill, then a funicular railway to the top.
- He left because he was alarmed at the environmental damage being done by the 1.2 mile funicular railway being built to within 500 feet of the Cairngorm summit.
- The Government decision means the green light for major work to refurbish Pier Hill and provide a new link through a lift or funicular railway from the High Street to the seafront.
- It is built on seven hills and sits around a beautiful harbour in the quaintly named Puddefjord, best viewed from the funicular railway that takes you more than 1,000 ft above the city.
- funicular railway
- Requiring a more convenient mode of transportation, the idea of a railway was broached in 1897, but it wasn't until 1924 that the funicular railway to the top of Flagstaff Hill was built.
- Cairngorm is hoping the £15m funicular railway, which opened last year, will help open the mountain to leisure pursuits other than skiing.
- It could be reached by a funicular railway and cable car, but not at five o'clock in the morning. A KING'S RANSOM
