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Montmartre Funicular

Montmartre Funicular
Photograph looking down the outlier (French: butte) of Montmartre showing the back and roof of a cabin. A panorama of Paris below fills the background.
Overview
Stations2
Service
Operator(s)RATP
Rolling stock2 cabins
Ridership2 million journeys per year
History
Opened13 July 1900
Technical
Line length0.108 km (0.067 mi)
Track gauge1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in)

The Montmartre Funicular (French: Funiculaire de Montmartre) is an inclined transport system serving the Montmartre neighbourhood of Paris, France, in the 18th arrondissement. Operated by the RATP, the Paris transport authority, the system opened in 1900; it was entirely rebuilt in 1935 and again in 1991.

The system is a funicular in name only. Its formal title, the Montmartre Funicular, is a vestige of its earlier configuration, where its cars operated in a counterbalanced, interconnected pair, always moving in opposite directions in concert, thus meeting the definition of a funicular. The system now uses two independently operating cars that can each ascend or descend on demand, qualifying as a double inclined elevator,[1][2][3] retaining the term funicular in its title as a historical reference.

The system carries passengers between the base of Montmartre and its summit, accessing the nearby Sacré-Cœur basilica and paralleling the adjacent staircases of Rue Foyatier. The 108 m (354 ft) cars climbs 36 m (118 ft) in under a minute and a half and carry two million passengers a year.

  1. ^ "MiniMetro" (PDF). LEITNER ropeways.
  2. ^ "7 Line Extension Inclined Elevators" (PDF). MTA Capital Construction. 28 April 2014. Retrieved 20 June 2018.
  3. ^ Pyrgidis, Christos N. (4 January 2016). "Cable railway systems for steep gradients". Railway Transportation Systems: Design, Construction and Operation. Taylor & Francis. p. 251. ISBN 978-1-4822-6215-5.

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