English Dictionary

funicular railway

noun

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.

The funicular railway takes visitors up the steep hill to the castle.

意味（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.