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Funicular railway

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Noun
  1. 1
    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."

  2. 2
    a railway up the side of a mountain pulled by a moving cable and having counterbalancing ascending and descending cars wordnet

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