Word: funicular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cannon Mountain funicular is in operation and there are two trains daily heaving the North Station for Plymouth, where a bus leaves at 4.15 o'clock in the afternoon for Franconia. One train leaves at 9 o'clock, the other at 12.30 o'clock, both connecting with...
Bumping down the steep lava-baked slopes of Mt. Vesuvius one day last week, a tourist-laden car of the funicular railway jumped its cable, gathered speed, left the rails, crashed headlong into an electric power pole, killed a French honeymoon couple, an Italian guide, four others, injured nine...