Similar words: funicular, funiculus, railway, railwayman, railway car, railway line, railway company, railway system. Meaning: n. a railway up the side of a mountain pulled by a moving cable and having counterbalancing ascending and descending cars.
1. Tourists can take the funicular railway to the top of the mountain.
2. Haifa Underground Funicular Railway: Haifa . opened 1959.
3. Hong Kong's other 'tramway' is a cable-hauled funicular railway operated by the Peak Tramways Company Limited from Central to The Peak.
4. Hong Kong's other tramway is a cable-hauled funicular railway operated by the Peak Tramways Company Limited from Central (Garden Road) to the Peak.
5. The five rail systems include a heavily-used mass transit system, a busy suburban railway, a modern light railway, a traditional street tramway and the Peak funicular railway.
6. This summer I want to take my son on the funicular railway which runs up the mountain to the top of the castle gardens.
7. Eugen Langen had designed a railway in Dresden, although it was more of a funicular railway.
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