A particular type of rail transit system which ascends a steep urban or mountain incline, having usually two cars sharing a single track, with the cars linked by a cable and an arrangement of pulleys such that the descending car assists in the hoisting of the ascending car, i.e. the two cars serve as counterweights for each other
Pertaining to a funiculus; made up of, or resembling, a funiculus, or funiculi; as, a funicular ligament
{i} funicular railway, steep railway operated by means of a cable which raises and lowers the cars (often with the ascending car counterbalancing the descending one)
A funicular or a funicular railway is a type of railway which goes up a very steep hill or mountain. A machine at the top of the slope pulls the carriage up the rails by a steel rope. a small railway that carries people up and down a steep hill or mountain, pulled by a thick metal rope (funiculus , from funis )
a railway up the side of a mountain pulled by a moving cable and having counterbalancing ascending and descending cars