Funicular railway

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The banana-yellow cable car has been climbing this steep hill since 1931.

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The Budapest Castle Hill Funicular or Budavári Sikló is a funicular railway in the city of Budapest, in Hungary. It links the Adam Clark Square and the Széchenyi Chain Bridge at river level to Buda Castle above. The line was opened on March 2, 1870, and has been in municipal ownership since 1920. It was destroyed in the Second World War and reopened on June 4, 1986. A feature of the line are the two pedestrian foot bridges which cross above it. These were present when the line opened, were…

Passengers remain level at all times thanks to rotating cylindrical carriages

The Kiev funicular is one of the main attraction of the city with a long history. This is an unusual means of transportation - a simple carriage that goes up and down a steep slope using a rope pull. Actually, the word "funicular" is translated from Latin as a cable car, and the first name of the Kiev funicular is "Mikhailovsky electric cable car." Today the funicular is very popular among the guests of the capital, but initially, this type of transport had nothing to do with an…

The Tiflis Funicular railway was constructed to develop the uninhabited Mtatsminda plateau that overlooks the city and was opened on 27 March 1905. The railway carriage accommodated up to 50 people…

RD19243. Opened in 1902, the Hastings East Cliff Railway is 267 feet long and rises at a gradient of 1 in 1¼ making it the steepest funicular railway in the U.K. The gauge is 5ft. Orignially a water balanced system, it was conveted to electricity in the 1970s when new cars were provided. These were replaced again in 2010. It connects the beach with the Hastings Country Park which overlooks the Old Town. Wednesday, 10th October, 2018. Copyright © Ron Fisher.