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funicular railway
Variant of funicular
adjective
- of or like a funiculus or funiculi
- of, worked by, or hanging from a rope or cable
noun
a mountain railway on which counterbalanced cars on parallel sets of rails are pulled up and lowered by cables
also funicular railway
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