Meanings
plural funicular railways
- A cable railway on an incline; especially one which operates on two tracks (or with a passing loop), with a pair of vehicles counterbalancing each other.
Funicular railways take gradients to the extreme, running two cars in counterbalanced, contrary motion over often-perilous cliff inclines. [...] Britain's first funicular railways arrived in Scarborough in the 1870s.
2021 January 13, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Spectacular funiculars”, in RAIL, issue 922, page 50
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna railway up the side of a mountain pulled by a moving cable and having counterbalancing ascending and descending cars
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Hungarian siklóvasút
- siklóvasútrailway — see also funicular
Italian funicolare
- funicolarerailway — see also funicular
Turkish füniküler
- fünikülerrailway — see also funicular
Cite this entry
funicular railway. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/funicular%20railway
“funicular railway.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/funicular%20railway. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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