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funicular railways

funicular railways is the plural of funicular railway.

Meaning of funicular railway

Noun

funicular railway (plural funicular railways)

  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.2021 January 13, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Spectacular funiculars”, in RAIL, issue 922, page 50

Questions about funicular railways

What is funicular railways the plural of?
Funicular railways is the plural of funicular railway.

Words near funicular railways in the dictionary

  1. funicles
  2. funicular
  3. funicular polygon
  4. funicular polygons
  5. funicular railway
  6. funicular railways
  7. funicularly
  8. funiculars
  9. funiculate
  10. funiculi
  11. funiculitis

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