English Dictionary

funicular railway

名詞

A cable railway on an incline; especially one which operates on two tracks (or with a passing loop), with a pair of vehicles counterbalancing each other.

日本語の意味

傾斜路を上るため、ケーブルを用いて互いに牽引し合う2両が相互に作用する鉄道。特に、二本の線路（または分岐線を有する）を用いる運行方式を指す。

We rode the funicular railway up the steep hillside to reach the hilltop observatory.

私たちは丘の頂上にある展望台に行くために、傾斜を登るケーブル鉄道に乗りました。

意味（1）

A cable railway on an incline; especially one which operates on two tracks (or with a passing loop), with a pair of vehicles counterbalancing each other.

Funicular railways take gradients to the extreme, running two cars in counterbalanced, contrary motion over often-perilous cliff inclines. … Britain's first funicular railways arrived in Scarborough in the 1870s.

funicular railways （ plural ）