List of funicular railways

This is a list of funicular railways, organised by place within country and continent. The funiculars range from short urban lines to significant multi-section mountain railways.

A funicular railway is distinguished from the similar incline elevator in that it has two vehicles that counterbalance one another rather than independently operated cars.

Location	Name of system	Date opened	Date closed	Notes
Niterói	Niterói funicular^[2]	1906	1950s
Paranapiacaba	São Paulo Railway	1867 1982		Consist of two lines, (1982 later rack operated
Rio de Janeiro	Outeiro da Glória funicular^[3]	1942 (Modernized 2003)
Rio de Janeiro	Paula Mattos funicular^[4]	1877	1926
Salvador	Gonçalves funicular [pt]	1889
	Liberdade-Calçada funicular [pt]	1981
	Pilar funicular [pt]	1915 2006	1984 (later reopened)	Replacing a rack railway from 1897
Santos	Monte Serrat funicular [pt]	1927 ^[5]

Province	Location	Name of system	Date opened	Date closed	Notes
Alberta	Edmonton	Edmonton Incline Railway^[6]	1908	1913
Alberta	Edmonton	100 Street Funicular^[7]	2017		This is an inclined elevator, not a funicular
Ontario	Hamilton	Hamilton Incline Railway	1900	1936
	Niagara Falls	Falls Incline Railway	1966		Also known as the Horseshoe Falls Incline
		Leander Colt Incline	circa 1869	1889
		Hornblower Niagara Funicular	1894 reopened 2019	1990 –	Also known as the Maid of the Mist Incline and the Clifton Incline
		Maid of the Mist Incline	1894 reopened 2019	1990 –
		Whirlpool Rapids Incline	circa 1876	1934
Quebec	Montreal	Mount Royal Funicular Railway	1884	1918
	Quebec City	Old Quebec Funicular	1879 (Cable)	1907 (Cable)	This has been modified to operate as a pair of inclined elevators, it is no longer a funicular
	Quebec City	Old Quebec Funicular	1907 (Electric) rebuilt in 1946, in operation to this day.	1945 (Electric)

Location	Name of system	Date opened	Date closed	Notes
Santiago	Funicular de Santiago	1925		San Cristóbal Hill in Spanish Cerro San Cristóbal.
	Cerro Santa Lucía funicular	1902	1910	^{[citation needed]}
	Hill 18 Elevator [es]	2016		Cerro 18 funicular
	Parque de La Infancia funicular	2012
Valparaíso^[8]	Arrayán funicular	1905	1964
	Artillería funicular railway	1893
	Ascensor Barón funicular	1906
	Ascensor Concepción funicular	1883
	Bellavista funicular	1897	1955
	Cordillera funicular	1887
	El Hogar funicular	1912	1955
	El Peral funicular	1902
	Esmeralda funicular	1905	1962
	Espíritu santo funicular	1911
	Florida funicular	1906
	Hospital Carlos van Buren funicular	1929
	La Cruz funicular	1908	1992
	Larrain funicular	1906
	Las Monjas funicular	1912
	Lecheros funicular	1906
	Mariposas funicular	1906
	Polanco funicular	1913
	Pantéon funicular	1900	1952
	Perdices funicular	1932	1962
	Placeres funicular	1913	1971
	Ramaditas funicular	1914	1955
	Reina Victoria funicular	1903
	San Agustin funicular	1913
	Sant Domingo funicular	1910	1965
	Villaseca funicular	1907
Viña del Mar	Villanelo funicular	1983

State	Location	Name of system	Date opened	Date closed	Notes
Guanajuato	Guanajuato City	Guanajuato funicular	2001		Guanajuato funicular inaugurated in 2001, it joins the theatre Juarez to the monument El Pipila.^[9]
Nuevo León	Monterrey	Grutas de García			Replaced by an aerial tramway)^[10]

State	Location	Name of system	Date opened	Date closed	Notes
Arkansas	Marble Falls	Dogpatch Funicular Tram	1971	1993
California	Capitola	Shadowbrook^[12]	1958		Single car incline used to access a unique riverfront restaurant that's been in business since 1947.
	Fairfax		1913	1929^[13]^[14]
	Feather River Canyon				Bucks Creek Powerhouse, single car incline used for inspection of water system, later abandoned. Rails still visible on canyon walls.
	Industry	Pacific Palms Resort, Industry Hills Golf Club funicular	1979		Later closed for maintenance
	Santa Catalina Island	Island Mountain Railway	1904 1921	1918 1923
	Valencia	Six Flags Magic Mountain funicular			Honda Express, (original name: Funicular)

	Los Angeles
	Bunker Hill	Angels Flight	1901; reopened several times	1969 –	Moved and re-opened 1996, closed 2001, re-opened 2010, closed 2013, re-opened in 2017
	Los Angeles	Court Flight	1904	1943	Operated from 1904 to 1943 damaged by fire; razed 1944; site of Court of Flags.
	Mt. Washington Railway		1909	1919	Operated in the Highland Park/Mt. Washington neighborhood of L.A., ticket office and powerhouse still exist.
	Playa del Rey		1901	1909	Two cars ran in a counterbalance configuration from a Los Angeles Pacific Railway stop at the base of the Westchester cliffs to a hotel at the top of the bluff. Legend has it that the two cars were named 'Alphonse' and 'Gaston'.^[15]

	San Francisco
		Fillmore Counterbalance	1895	1941
Telegraph Hill	Telegraph Hill funicular	1884	1886	Telegraph hill funicular to the observatory at the summit operated on Greenwich Street between 1884 and 1886.^[16]
Las Casitas Tram, San Francisco	Las Casitas funicular			Las Casitas Tram, San Francisco funicular serving a private home on Bay Street.^[17] Still in operation
Colorado^[18]	Cañon City	Royal Gorge Incline	1931	2013
	Golden	Lookout Mountain	1912	1920^[19]
	Golden	South Table Mountain	1912–	1920^[19]
	Manitou Springs	Manitou Incline	1907	1990
	Morrison	Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Mount Morrison Cable Incline	1909	1914
Iowa	Dubuque	Fourth Street Elevator	1882		Still operational
Iowa	Dubuque	Eleventh Street Elevator			Closed
Massachusetts	Hadley	Mount Holyoke Railroad	1854	1938
Massachusetts	Holyoke	Mount Tom Railroad	1897	1938
Michigan	Kalamazoo	Western State Normal Railroad	1908	1949
Minnesota	Duluth	7th Avenue West Incline Railway	1891	1939
Minnesota	Duluth	Duluth Belt Line Railway (in West Duluth)	1889	1916
Missouri	Branson	Marvel Cave, Silver Dollar City	1957		218 feet (66 m) long, 500 feet (152.4 m) rise, Curved. (still operational)
New Jersey	Hoboken	Hoboken Elevated Wagon Lift	1873	1949
	Orange	Orange Mountain Cable Railway	1893	1902^[20]
	Weehawken	Eldorado Elevator
	Weehawken	Weehawken Elevated Wagon Lift	1873	(Closed)
New York	Beacon	Mount Beacon Incline Railway	1902 1975	1972 1978
	Lake George	Prospect Mountain Cable Incline Railway^[21]	1895	1903
	Niagara Falls	Prospect Park Incline Railway	1847	1907
	Palenville	Otis Elevating Railway	1892	1918
	Sea Cliff	Sea Cliff Incline^[22]	1886	After 1907
	Yonkers	Park Hill Incline^[23]	1894	1937
	Yonkers	Ridge Hill Incline			Yonkers other funicular to the Sprain Ridge Hospital Campus.^[24]
North Carolina	Fontana Dam	Fontana Dam incline tram	1942	1945	Fontana Dam turbine hall access on the east side of the Little Tennessee River (technically not a funicular, but an inclined railway a single car with a balance sled which rolls on tracks underneath the cab). No longer operational.^[25]
North Carolina	Maggie Valley	Ghost Town in the Sky	1961 2007	2002 Closed	Then closed again, incline still not operational
Ohio	Cincinnati	Bellevue Incline	1876	1926	^{[citation needed]}
		Fairview Incline	1892	1923
		Mount Adams Incline	1874	1948
		Mount Auburn Incline	1872	1898
		Price Hill Incline	1874	1943
Pennsylvania	Altoona	Horseshoe Curve funicular	1851		Still operational
	Ashley	Ashley Planes	1837	1948
	Beaver Falls	Patterson Heights Incline	1895	1927
	Johnstown	Johnstown Inclined Plane	1891		Still operational
	Jim Thorpe	Mauch Chunk Switchback Railway	1847	1938
	Jim Thorpe	Mount Pisgah Plane
	Summit Hill	Mount Jefferson Plane
	Pittsburgh	Bellevue Incline	1887	1892
		Castle Shannon Incline	1890	1964
		Castle Shannon South Incline	1892	1914
		Clifton Incline	1889	1905
		Duquesne Incline	1877		Still operational
		Fort Pitt Incline	1882	1900
		H.B. Hays and Brothers Coal Railroad	1877		H.B. Hays and Brothers Coal Railroad, inclines on Becks Run and Streets Run, operational in 1877
		Knoxville Incline	1890	1960
		Monongahela Incline	1870		Still operational
		Monongahela Freight Incline	1884	1935
		Mount Oliver Incline	1872	1951
		Norwood Incline	1901	1923
		Nunnery Hill Incline	1888	1895
		Penn Incline	1884	1953
		Pittsburgh and Castle Shannon Plane	bef.1871	c. 1912
		St. Clair Incline	1888	c. 1932
		Troy Hill Incline	1888	1898
	West Elizabeth	Walton's coal incline
	West Elizabeth	O'Neil and Company Incline
Tennessee	Chattanooga	Lookout Mountain Incline Railway	1895		Still operational
Utah	Park City	The St. Regis Funicular	2009		Still operational, this is a pair of inclined lifts, not a funicular.^[26]^[27]
Virginia	Roanoke	Mill Mountain Incline	1910	1929
Washington	Seattle	Queen Anne Counterbalance	1901	1940
Wisconsin	Milwaukee	Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum^{[citation needed]}	1923		This is an inclined lift, not a funicular

Region	Location	Name of system	Date opened	Date closed
Anhui	Huangshan	Huangshan funicular^[28]
Chongqing	Yuzhong	Wanglongmen funicular^[29]	1945	1993
		Caiyuanba funicular^[30]	1953	1996
		Chaotianmen funicular	1983 (2019 Planned reopening)^[30]	2007
Jiangxi	Jiujiang	Lushan – Sandiequan funicular^[31]
Shanxi	Taiyuan	Ximingkuang Cable Car (西铭矿缆车)

State	Location	Name of system	Date opened	Notes
Himachal Pradesh	Jogindernagar	Shanan Power House	1930s	India's highest funicular at 2530 metres (8300 feet) elevation above sea level. It was built in 1930s to carry heavy machinery of Shanan Power House to Barot. It is on one meter gauge. It is a 4-stage network of funicular and horizontal track^[34] and has six haulage car stations. The loading capacity of haulage way cars are 15, 10, 5 tons. Higher the capacity, lower the speed. It is arguably the highest funicular in the world surpassing Niesenbahn, Switzerland (2336 meters).
Maharashtra	Bhira Kheri	Bhivpuri Road		The Tata Group operates funicular railways.
	Saptashrungi	Nashik Temple^[35]	2018
	Virar	Jivdani Mata Temple^[36]
Tamil Nadu	Dhandayuthapani Swamy Temple	Palani Temple Funicular^[37]

Location	Name of system	Date opened	Date closed	Notes
Chiang Mai	Wat Phra That Doi Suthep^[41]
Phetchaburi	Khao Wang
Songkhla	Khao Tang Kuan

Location	Name of system	Date opened	Date closed	Notes
Axams	Olympiabahn (Axamer Lizum) [de]	1975
Bad Hofgastein	Schlossalmbahn [de]	1964		Replaced by monocable gondola 2018
Ellmau	Hartkaiserbahn [de]	1972		Replaced by monocable gondola in 2015
Graz	Schlossbergbahn	1894
Großglockner	Großglockner Gletscherbahn [da]	1963
Hallstatt	Salzbergbahn [de]	1952
Innerfragant, Salzburg	Gletscherexpress (Mölltaler Gletscher) [de]	1997
Innsbruck	Hungerburgbahn	1907 Replaced 2005
Innsbruck	Bergisel Skisprung-Stadion	2002
Kaprun	Gletscherbahn Kaprun 2	1974	2000	Site of the Kaprun disaster
	Lärchwandschrägaufzug	1952
	Gletschershuttle	1990
Kolbnitz, Reißeck	Kreuzeckbahn [de]	1974
Kolbnitz, Reißeck	Reisseck Railway	1908	2022	Closed for public transport
Kufstein	Festungsbahn	1999
Reutte	Ehrenberg Liner	2019
Sankt Leonhard im Pitztal	Pitzexpress [de]	1983
Salzburg	Reisszug	c.1500
Salzburg	Festungsbahn	1892
Seefeld in Tirol	Standseilbahn Rosshütte [de]	1969		Rosshütte funicular
Serfaus	U-Bahn Serfaus	1985
Spital am Pyhrn	Wurzeralmbahn [de]	1978
St. Anton am Arlberg	Kandaharbahn	1972		Replaced by monocable gondola Nassereinbahn in 2000
St. Johann in Tirol	Harschbichlbahn I & II	Replaced 1987
Zauchensee	Weltcupexpress	2000

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