funicular in English

adjective
1
(of a railroad, especially one on a mountainside) operating by cable with ascending and descending cars counterbalanced.
The enormous growth of tourism in the Alps means funicular railway and cable car operators seek to transport far more visitors than their operations were originally intended for.
2
of or relating to a rope or its tension.
noun
1
a cable railroad, especially one on a mountainside, in which ascending and descending cars are counterbalanced.
Just one day earlier things were very different, with hordes of skiers and snowboarders snaking back into the car park, queuing for a trip on the brand new funicular that opened on Christmas Eve after years of planning and controversy.

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1. Funicular Railway at Cairngorm Mountain 01479 861261 Cairngorm Mountain is home to Scotland’s only funicular railway

2. Funiculars, funicular railways, aerial tramways and aerial conveyors

3. Further examinations led to the diagnosis of pernicious anemia and funicular myelosis.

4. Yes, I wish to order the Aerial Tramway and Funicular Statistics 2009 !

5. The funicular runs alongside the Rue Foyatier, a wide 220-step staircase.

6. 17 Funicular - Wikimedia Commons - A funicular, also known as an inclined plane or cliff railway, is a cable railway in which a cable attached to a pair of tram-like vehicles on rails moves them up and ...

7. Noew goods can be brought from the funicular to the adhesive railway in just four minutes.

8. Despite its unusual suspended format, the Dresden Suspension Railway is operated as a conventional funicular railway.

9. Cableway installations are mainly lift systems, such as funicular railways, aerial ropeways, cable cars, gondolas, chairlifts and drag lifts.

10. It is a subterranean funicular on rails, running from downtown Paris Square to Gan HaEm (Mother's Park) on Mount Carmel.

11. Three panoramic viewpoints above 3000 metres can easily be reached by rack railway, underground funicular railway or Europes highest aerial cable car.

12. The nearby towns of Massa and San Sebastiano were engulfed, as was the famous mountainside funicular railcar popularized in the Italian folk song “Funiculì, Funiculà.”

13. Cairngorm Mountain is the UK’s most popular ski area, home to Scotland's only funicular railway which takes passengers up to the country's highest restaurant, shop, mountain exhibition and viewing terrace

14. THE Cairngorms will get the "jewel in its crown" after the Scottish Government pledged more than £20 million to reopen the national park's funicular railway

15. The group's main activities focus on the manufacture and installation of surface and aerial cableways, funicular railways, urban transit systems, elevators, mechanical garaging systems and stacker cranes for high-rise warehouses.

16. The most popular one is the funicular heading to SopraBolzano (and since the station is right in the middle of town, you definitely don’t need a car to access it).

17. 2 cases, one of polyneuropathy and one of funicular myelosis, in which myelography was performed, are reported. After the insertion of the contrast medium an increase of eosinophil leucocytes was observed.

18. Fog covers the valleys behind as a man is abseiled from a cable car during an annual rescue exercise at the funicular to Mount Pilatus ( 982 ft) near Luzer, Switzerland on Nov.

19. In a girl 10 years of age with selective vitamin B12 malabsorption associated with proteinuria and residual symptoms of funicular myelosis an extensive study of the intestinal and nephrologic functions was done.

20. Males are distinguished by the long fine setae of the second funicular segment, light brown coloration, long narrow parameres, volsella with two small basal teeth and lacking a lobe on the distal edge of digitus volsellaris.

21. The Cairngorm Mountain Railway, which opened in 2001, is the highest railway in the United Kingdom.The two-kilometre long funicular ascends the northern slopes of Cairn Gorm, the United Kingdom's sixth-highest mountain, serving the Cairngorm Mountain ski resort.The route and ski area are located within the Cairngorms National Park, the largest National Nature Reserve in Britain, located …