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Funicular:

adjective

  • (of a railway, especially one on a mountainside) operating by cable with ascending and descending cars counterbalanced.
  • Relating to a rope or its tension.

noun

  • A funicular railway.

[Oxford English Dictionaries]

Noted in conversation with a colleague today.

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