| 单词 | funicular railway |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfunicular railway funicular railway n. a railway that uses a cable to move carriages up and down a steep incline (such as a cliff or mountainside), with the ascending and descending carriages counterbalancing each other. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicle travelling on or by cable > [noun] > cableway or cable railway rope-way1665 aerial railway1839 rope railway1849 tramway1872 funicular railway1874 suspension-railway1875 cable-road1882 telpher line1884 cable-railroad1887 cable-railway1887 cable tramway1887 funiculaire1888 funicular1888 cable-way1899 aerial tramway1904 blondin1906 teleferic1916 mono-cable1922 téléphérique1922 Seilbahn1963 1874 Graphic 9 May 442/1 The funicular railway will commence at the foot of the mountain, and will be divided into two sections. 1977 N. Shepherd Living Mountain in Grampian Quartet (2001) ii. 11 The inaccessibility of this loch is part of its power. Silence belongs to it. If jeeps find it out, or a funicular railway disfigures it, part of its meaning will be gone. 2003 Birmingham Post (Nexis) 27 Sept. 44 Bridgnorth is the proud owner of one of the last surviving funicular railways in Britain. What it does is take people up the 118 feet from Low Town to High Town over the space of 200 feet of track in a couple of minutes. < as lemmas |
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