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Funimag @funimag.com · 13h

Well... i am interested about funiculars for may be... 40 years now... I try to recognize all of them... 😅

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Funimag @funimag.com · 20h

Why incredible?

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Funimag @funimag.com · 1d

Colline du Lycabette 🇬🇷 😉

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Funimag @funimag.com · 26d

"Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" (1969) 😎
Robert Redford, Paul Newman, Katharine Ross

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Funimag @funimag.com · Sep 9

🚨 Elevador da Gloria crash. The official report confirms that the accident was caused by the cable attachment to the upper car breaking and that the safety brake was unable to stop the car detached from cable 🚨 🇵🇹 🚞
#funicular #elevadordaGloria #Lisbon #crash

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Elevador da Gloria. The official report confirms that the accident was caused by the cable attachment to the upper car breaking and that the safety brake was unable to stop the car detached from cable

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Funimag @funimag.com · Sep 5

🚨 Here is the excellent article that Catherine Nicholls has just published for @cnn.com on Elevador da Gloria tragedy and to which I modestly contributed 🇵🇹 🚞 💥
#funicular #elevadordaLavra #elevadordaGloria #Lisbon #Portugal #crash

edition.cnn.com/2025/09/04/e...

What to know about the deadly Lisbon funicular crash | CNN

At least 16 people were killed and several injured after the carriage of a funicular – a type of railway that travels up and down steep slopes – derailed in the Portuguese capital of Lisbon on Wednesd...

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Funimag @funimag.com · Sep 3

Yes I know of course 😢

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Funimag @funimag.com · Sep 3

Oui j'ai vu évidemment maintenant le bilan est de 15 morts et presque autant de blessés 😢

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Funimag @funimag.com · Sep 3

Yes I know... now it is at least 15 dead 😢

Funimag @funimag.com · Sep 1

🚨 Funicolare di Biella, it's over 😭 Since this morning, Sep 1, 2025, a shuttle bus (ticket €1.80) leaves every 30 minutes to connect Piano to Piazzo and this will continue until the municipality finds a new solution... or not! 🇮🇹 🚞
#funicular #Biella #Piemonte #Italy

Bus shuttle Biella Piano - Biella Piazzo

Bus shuttle Biella Piano - Biella Piazzo timetable

Funicolare Biella Piano - Biella Piazzo (from 2018 till 2025)

Funimag @funimag.com · Aug 23

Savez vous que la forteresse abrite un autre funiculaire qui est le plus vieux au monde et qu'il est en service depuis 1460? 🤗
#DieResszug #Salzburg

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Funimag @funimag.com · Aug 22

🚨 Biella funicular will be closed starting Sep 1 2025 due to problems and costs encountered since its 2018 renovation!
Since 1885 making it one of the oldest in Italy and it seems unthinkable that the city would close it permanently 🇮🇹 🚞
#funicular #Biella #Piemonte #Italy

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Funimag @funimag.com · Aug 21

🚨 Une nouvelle ligne ferroviaire va fermer en France le 31 août 2025 😱
Cette fois c'est la ligne Busseau-sur-Creuse - Aubusson - Felletin dans la Creuse 🇫🇷 🚆 ☠️
#SNCF #railway #fermeture #RIP #BusseauSurCreuse #Felletin #Guéret #Aubusson #Creuse #TER #NouvelleAquitaine

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Funimag @funimag.com · Aug 19

Zürich - Today Aug 19, 2025 inauguration of the Rigiblick funicular with its new CWA cabins designed by Therese Naef who also designed Zürich Flexity-Tram. Don't you think an armrest is missing on the front window? 🇨🇭 🚞
#funicular #seilbahn #standseilbahn #cablecar #Rigiblick #Zürich #CWA

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Funimag @funimag.com · Aug 19

Torino - Stazione di Sassi a Superga. Passenger wagons are ready to be pushed by "Locomotore Agudio 3" which is moved by a non stop cable located on the left side of the track (1884-1934) replaced by cog railway in 1934 🇮🇹 🚞
#funicolare #Agudio #Torino #Piemonte #Italy

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Funimag @funimag.com · Aug 18

The funicular 'Drahtseilbahn Interlaken-Heimwehfluh (DIH)' in 1906, the year of its opening 🇨🇭 🚞
#funicular #standseilbahn #Drahtseilbahn #Heimwehfluh #Interlaken #Jungfrau #Switzerland #SwissVintage
#BlackAndWhiteSwitzerland #OldSwissPhotos
#SwissNostalgia #HistoricalSwitzerland #VintageTravel

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Funimag @funimag.com · Aug 15

Sunset on Notre-Dame de Paris 🇫🇷 📷
#Paris #NotreDameDeParis #sunset #photo #photographie #photography #photooftheday #streetphotography #cathédral #iloveparis #photoofparis
#GoldenHour #SunsetVibes #SunsetPhotography #GoldenLight #MagicHour #ParisAtSunset #CityOfLight #TravelFrance #ParisJeTaime

Notre-Dame de Pzris au soleil couchant qui se reflète sur la Seine.

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Funimag @funimag.com · Aug 14

🚨 There is a new modern #ascensor in Valparaiso since Aug 13, 2025 to link BancoEstado to Centro Cultural Museo Baburizza. It is an inclined lift and not traditional #funicular but it shows the possibility to modernize inclined lifts in the City 🇨🇱 🚞
#Valparaiso #Chile @apuntesyviajes.bsky.social

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Funimag @funimag.com · Aug 13

Funicular car that Kim Il-sung used to visit the Pyongyang Metro construction site on 30 Oct 1967 130m below the surface. Note the only padded seat for the great leader 🤗
Also note the rudimentary emergency brake under the car 🇰🇵 🚞
#funicular #Pyongyang #Metro #NorthKorea #DPRK

This historical funicular vehicle is exposed at Pyongyang Metro Museum. This funicular was certainly located at the place of the actual great elevator.

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Funimag @funimag.com · Aug 11

Sunset on Panthéon from Rue d'Ulm, Montagne Sainte-Geneviève, Paris 🇫🇷 🛕 🌞
#photo #photography #photooftheday #streetphotography #photoofparis #Paris #Paris5 #sunset #sunsetphoto #Panthéon #architecture #monumentofparis #MontagneSainteGenevieve

Rue d'Ulm, Montagne Sainte-Geneviève, Paris 🇫🇷 🛕 🌞
#photo #photography #photooftheday #streetphotography #photoofparis #Paris #Paris5 #sunset #sunsetphoto #Panthéon #architecture #monumentofparis #MontagneSainteGenevieve

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Funimag @funimag.com · Jul 27

Les images de la dernière étape du #TDF2025 autour du Sacré-Coeur de Montmartre et en haut du funiculaire.
Passages du peloton, de Pogacar et Wout van Aert devant la station supérieure du funiculaire 🇫🇷 🚞 🚴
#funiculaire #funicular #Montmartre #RATP #Paris #TDF #cyclism @chrisinparis.bsky.social

Sacré-Coeur de Montmartre et et le funiculaire dans sa totalité.

Passage du peloton devant la station supérieure du funiculaire de Montmartre.

Passage de Tadej Pogačar devant la station supérieure du funiculaire de Montmartre.

Passage de Wout van Aert devant la station supérieure du funiculaire de Montmartre.

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Funimag @funimag.com · Jul 27

Soon tonight, the #TDF2025 will ascend Montmartre and pass the top funicular station 3 times.
Remember that bicycles are not permitted on the Montmartre funicular 🚳 🇫🇷 🚞 🚴
#funiculaire #funicular #Montmartre #RATP #Paris #TDF #cyclism #lesRP #Mobility @chrisinparis.bsky.social

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Funimag @funimag.com · Jul 27

Ce soir le #TDF2025 montera à Montmartre et passera 3 fois devant la station supérieure du funiculaire.
Rappelons que les vélos ne sont pas autorisés dans le funiculaire de Montmartre 🚳 🇫🇷 🚞 🚴
#funiculaire #funicular #Montmartre #RATP #Paris #TDF #cyclism #lesRP #mobility @chrisinparis.bsky.social

Rappelons que les vélos ne sont pas autorisés dans le funiculaire de Montmartre 🚳

Circuit de Montmartre du #TDF2025 à effectuer 3 fois en passant devant la station supérieure du funiculaire.

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Funimag @funimag.com · Jul 26

Pas de funiculaire sur #TDF2025 mais de l'archéologie ferroviaire avec le TDF qui suit entre Bolandoz et Pontarlier l'ancienne ligne du Besançon-St-Paul Amathay Pontarlier "Le Tacot" 1910-1953 🇫🇷 🚂 🚴‍♀️
#railway #Jura #Doubs #cyclism #urbex #abandoned @cyclingeve.bsky.social
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L'affiche du "Tacot", train Besançon-Saint-Paul - Amathay-Vésigneux puis jusqu'à Pontarlier et Andelot (1910-1953).

Le tracé de la ligne du "Tacot", train Besançon-Saint-Paul - Amathay-Vésigneux - Pontarlier - Andelot (1910-1953).

Le "Tacot", train Besançon-Saint-Paul - Amathay-Vésigneux - Pontarlier - Andelot (1910-1953).

Ancienne gare d'Amathay - Vésigneux (Doubs) terminus de la ligne provenant de Besançon - Saint-Paul... prolongée plus tard vers Evilliers, Sombacour, Pontarlier.

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Funimag @funimag.com · Jul 25

If you are interested I published many tweets about funiculars of Scarborough on my X/Twitter account 🤗
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