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  1. Railway with two cars connected by a wire
  2. cable wound around a drum at the top of a
  3. steep incline. Funicular railways of up to
  4. 1.5 km/1 mi exist in Switzerland. In Britain,
  5. the system is used only in seaside cliff
  6. railways.
  7.