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 ...

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) ...

At least 15 people have died after Lisbon's Gloria funicular railway derailed and crashed into a building, also leaving around 18 people injured, authorities said. Footage on Wednesday evening showed ...

The Bourg-Saint-Maurice funicular railway is strengthening its role in shaping mobility in the Tarentaise region.

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

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 ...

Lisbon is mourning 16 people who were killed in a crash of a picturesque hillside streetcar popular with tourists on Wednesday. The yellow-and-white streetcar – one of Lisbon's major tourist ...

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 ...