Definitions for cable railway
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Random House Webster's College Dictionary
ca′ble rail`way(n.)
a railway on which the cars are pulled by a moving cable under the roadway.
Category: Transportation
Origin of cable railway:
1885–90
Princeton's WordNet
cable railway, funicular, funicular railway(noun)
a railway up the side of a mountain pulled by a moving cable and having counterbalancing ascending and descending cars
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