Switzerland has several funicular railways. The most notable is the Stoosbahn – the steepest funicular in the world. It ...

+ Adult fares to ride the Monte Bre funicular are 17/26CHF ($33/$50) single/return. There are reduced rates for children aged ...

With radiant lakes and plunging gorges, this is a landscape made for epic experiences — from soaring in cable-cars to summiting steep mountain trails.

Some funiculars are driverless, but the Glória Funicular typically ... Germany, Italy, Morocco, Spain, Switzerland, and Russia, Margarida Castro Martins, the head of Lisbon's Civil Protection Agency, ...

David Young, 82, from Holyhead on Anglesey, was among 16 people who died last Wednesday when the Glória funicular derailed ...

Lisbon's funicular railways have been operating since the 1880s. Here are the facts on how they worked, and what happened when one of them crashed.

Local media initially reported that the man had died in front of his son, but police later clarified he was being treated in ...

A three-year-old German boy was pulled alive from the wreckage of a tram carriage in Lisbon after it derailed and crashed into the side of a hotel on Wednesday. The boy’s father died in the disaster ...

Funiculars use a counterweight pulley system so that when ... two South Koreans, and individuals from Switzerland, Ukraine, the US and France were confirmed to have died, Portugal’s Judicial Police ...

Tributes have been paid to a “kind and dedicated” worker on the funicular that derailed and crashed into a building in Lisbon, killing at least 16 people. The Portuguese Prime Minister revised the ...

It is unclear what caused the crash in which 16 people died and more than 20 were injured, including many foreign nationals.

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 ...