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Funicular facts for kids

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HK Peak Tramway
The Peak Tram in Hong Kong is a funicular railway.

A funicular is a railway that uses trains that are pulled by cables wound around a pulley. This makes them able to climb very steep slopes, like those on hills and mountains.

Images for kids

  • Baku Funicular

    Funicular in Baku, Azerbaijan

  • Cable lest

    Bottom towrope

  • FunicularDriveTrain

    Funicular drive train

  • Muzeum MHD, dvoukolí vozu petřínské lanovky 1891

    Funicular wheelset with Abt rack and pinion brake

  • Fribourg funicular

    The wastewater powered Fribourg funicular featuring an Abt switch

  • Six and Seven , Great Orme tramway , Llandudno

    The two cars on the upper half of the Great Orme Tramway passing each other at a switch-controlled passing loop

  • Heidelberg funicular wheelset

    Wheelset of a two-rail funicular with the Abt switch turnout system

  • Prager Standseilbahn zum Petřín 14

    The two cars of the Petřín funicular; one of them is about to call at Nebozízek station (seen in the foreground), while the other will stop and wait for it to exchange passengers.

  • Tünel Istanbul

    Tünel in Istanbul, launched in 1875, Karaköy station as of 2006

See also

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