Angels Flight, a Los Angeles landmark and tourist destination, is back in business after a horrible accident forced the halting of service back in 2001. It’s still quaint, but under the classic design ...

A family in the U.K. has one of the country’s smallest funicular railways – a type of cable railway system on an incline – at their home. Ali Atkinson, 41, and her husband Owen, 42, bought the house ...

Footage captured the wreckage of a funicular railway crash in Portugal's capital that local authorities said killed 17 people and left nearly two dozen with injuries. The fatal wreck involving ...

It may look like a white-knuckle fairground ride but this futuristic tram is the world's steepest funicular. Swiss President Doris Leuthard officially opened the line which whisks passengers 1,300 ...

Portugal is observing a national day of mourning today after a funicular train derailed in Lisbon, killing at least 15 people in one of the capital’s most popular tourist areas. The incident occurred ...

Discover the Stoosbahn funicular railway, an engineering marvel nestled in the scenic Swiss Alps. Watch as this ...

(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 ...

The crash of a popular funicular railway car in Lisbon will go down as one of the worst public transit accidents in Portugal's history. Sixteen people were killed and 21 injured, including a Canadian.

Mountain rescue volunteers are to use the Cairngorm funicular to help them reach winter training areas more quickly. The ...

The Swiss president, who has a fear of heights, took the trip surprisingly well, and on reaching her destination, said, “What we do in politics is trivial in comparison to this work,” adding the ride ...

The barrel-shaped carriages of a new funicular line are seen front of mount Grosser Mythen (1,898 m/6,227 ft above sea level) during sunny winter weather in the Alpine resort of Stoos, Switzerland ...

It looks like a string of giant hamster wheels, but the world’s steepest funicular railway is being hailed for its revolutionary design. The cabins on the 52 million-Swiss franc ($52.6 million) ...