By this time they had reached the bottom of the funicular, and were back in the little station near the observatory.
They start along the terrace toward the station of the funicular railway.
Those who like to come up by the funicular can do so.
To scale the tremendous incline to the summit there was a funicular railway, to which our party now transferred themselves, sitting on seats raised one above another as in the gallery of a theater.
Upon a certain funicular at a mountain resort, where the cars pass one another up and down every twenty minutes, the conductors salute one another stiffly each time they pass.
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Females have a comparatively long secondfunicularsegment densely covered with placoid sensilla.
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I can only describe this as a sort of horizontalfunicular.
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Of these, 7,947 have raised objection to the detail of the proposal or have suggested that alternatives to thefunicularrailway should be considered.
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In ordinary language, the installations concerned are the cable cars, thefunicularrailways and ski lifts used in mountain resorts, all used where access is difficult.
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The station is elevated to incorporate the cable winding equipment necessary for the operation offunicularrailway and the cable car.
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The current cable car replaced this when thefunicularwas damaged by landslides, and uses the same route and adapted terminal stations.
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Today thefunicularis electric and automatic, but it still uses the original cabins.
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There is afunicularthat connects the basilica with the base of the cross.
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The trail is the remains of a former narrow gaugefunicularrailway whose tracks washed out during a rock slide in 1990.
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The peridioles are followed by theirfunicularcord and basal hapteron.
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Thefunicularwas originally constructed to facilitate the building of this reservoir, and was not opened for public use until 2001.
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The line opened in 1888, and is one of the few funiculars with water propulsion.
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There were four cars in two connected pairs, essentially forming two parallelfunicularrailways, each running on narrow gauge tracks.
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Thefunicularclosed in 1955 after a road up the mine had been built 1949.
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Thefunicularwas renovated three times: in 1928, 1958, and 1984.
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