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Cableway vs Funicular - What's the difference?

cableway | funicular |

As nouns the difference between cableway and funicular

is that cableway is a system of suspended cables from which cable cars are hung while funicular is a particular type of rail transit system which ascends a steep urban or mountain incline, having usually two cars sharing a single track, with the cars linked by a cable and an arrangement of pulleys such that the descending car assists in the hoisting of the ascending car, ie the two cars serve as counterweights for each other.

As an adjective funicular is

of, pertaining to, resembling, or powered by a rope or cable.

cableway

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A system of suspended cables from which cable cars are hung.

    • Synonyms

    * ropeway

    funicular

    English

    (wikipedia funicular)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of, pertaining to, resembling, or powered by a rope or cable
  • (botany) Having a fleshy covering of the seed formed from the funiculus, the attachment point of the seed.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A particular type of rail transit system which ascends a steep urban or mountain incline, having usually two cars sharing a single track, with the cars linked by a cable and an arrangement of pulleys such that the descending car assists in the hoisting of the ascending car, i.e. the two cars serve as counterweights for each other.