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Old April 3rd 17, 10:05 AM posted to uk.transport.london
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Someone Somewhere wrote:
On 03/04/2017 09:07, Recliner wrote:
Someone Somewhere wrote:
On 02/04/2017 18:26, wrote:

Does that mean at the time of my visit it was no longer a funicular
but a very long inclined lift but now it is a funicular again?


Given those cars seem to be articulated as well, when does a funicular
become a funicular and stop being a cable hauled railway?


The cars aren't articulated in a conventional sense.


Do they have "two or more sections connected by a flexible joint"?

(sorry - yes, that is pedantic, but I couldn't think of a better word
at the time, and you clearly understood my meaning)


No. They are short, single, almost certainly four-wheeled, cars, so
definitely not articulated. They have tilting floors to compensate for the
highly variable incline on the line.