At least 17 people have died and 18 more were injured after one of Lisbon's Gloria funicular railway cars derailed and crashed into a building. Funiculars like the Elevador da Glória are specifically ...

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 ...

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 UK's highest railway - which reopened in February after extensive repair work - is closing again for essential annual maintenance. Site operators, Cairngorm Mountain (Scotland) Ltd, have confirmed ...

They might not boast the latest cutting-edge technology, nor run along miles and miles of track, but throughout centuries, funicular railways have become a fascinating vintage mode of transport, as ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some 15 people have died after the Gloria funicular railway car in Lisbon, Portugal, derailed and crashed on Wednesday local time.

Angels Flight Railway has endured sweeping changes over decades ferrying passengers up and down a hill in downtown Los Angeles — but even it isn’t immune to the pressures of inflation. The iconic ...

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) ...