Sentence examples for funicular track from inspiring English sources

They service only a 1.8-km funicular track, but the four swooping stations that Zaha Hadid designed for this Austrian alpine town are the most aesthetically ambitious rail stations of the 21st century.

Newer parts of the city lie beneath Mount Mtatsminda, accessible by a funicular rail line.

I climb the steep Calçada da Glória by the funicular railway tracks, my leather soles slipping off marble cobbles that are like uneven cubes of volcanic ice.

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

Unbeknown to the riders inside, the two trains will pass at the midpoint along parallel tracks much like a funicular.

It still carries passengers between Karaköy and İstiklal Avenue along a steep 573 m track, while a more modern funicular between Taksim Square and Kabataş began running in 2006.

It's a short walk from La Concepción to similar views at the broad pedestrian walkway known as Paseo Gervasoni, and to Ascensor Concepción, inaugurated in 1883 and the oldest of the city's outdoor, cable-drawn "elevators" that run along steep tracks in the fashion of funicular railways.

We boarded a funicular, which climbed steeply along a course of multicolored fluorescent lights.

The funicular cars, built in 1925, carry passengers up a steep track that rises hundreds of feet above the Bellavista neighborhood.

The funicular consists of a parallel set of broad gauge railroad tracks with a 70.9 percent grade or an angle of 35 degrees and 28 minutes from the horizontal.

HIE took over the running of CairnGorm Mountain and the funicular railway last month.