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	Urban Mountain Railways and People Movers comp. by: Jacek Wesolowski e-mail updated 28th September 2003
	In many cities and towns funiculars, cog-wheel railways and other mountain-like people-movers play a substantial role in every day transport network. E.g. it would be extremely difficult to move around Naples if all its busy funiculars suddenly ceased to work. Some urban mountain railways are actually considered as Metro lines, some as tramways, most are incorporated into overall city transport fares. Here is the list of some railways and lifts that may have some contribution to urban life.
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		FUNICULARS A - H - M - R
		COG-WHEEL RLYS.
		CABLE RLYS.
		AERIAL CABLEWAYS
		LIFTS
		References
	l e f t: Gütschbahn in Lucerne from Führer für Luzern, Vierwaldstättersee und Umgebung, Luzern, 1893

abobristol: About Bristol web site (3.00);

almankoff: Al Mankoff, Conquest of the Palisades. A Triumph of Victorian Traction Technology web site, (1.99);

amt: Azienda Mobilità e Trasporti, Génova web site;

apac: APAC, Ascensores web site;

bahnrheinl: Bahnen im Rheinland web site by Joachim Biemann

beacrhs: The Mt Beacon Incline Railway Restoration Society web page

bell: John Bell's web site;

bergbanor: Bruse L.F. Persson Bruse's Bergbanor website;

bchr: The Bridgenorth Castle Hill Rly. Co. web site (12.98);

bohm: Franz Böhm, Erlebnisse auf den Schienenwegen Ungarns, in: 'Eisenbahn Jahrbuch '82', Transpress, Berlin (O), 1982;

britfuni: British passenger funicular railways list;

cablecar: Joe Thompson, Cable Car Home Page web site (12.98);

cgrain: Acknowledgements to Mr Clive Grainger;

cittele: Centro di Ricerca Trasporti, Genova, Progetto Città Elettriche doppelm: Doppelmayr Cable Car GmbH web site

eltranSR: Dmitry Zinovyev, Elektrotransport v gorodakh SSSR

fptu: France Passion des Transports Urbains web site;

funartx: Funicular de Artxanda offcial web site, La Villa de Bilbao;

funimag: Michel Azema's web site Funimag;

funurb: Funiculaires urbains et assimiles web site;

hardy: Brian Hardy, Paris Metro Handbook, Capital Transport, London 1993

hefti1: Walter Hefti, Zahnradbahnen der Welt, Birkhäuser, Basel-Stuttgart, 1971;

hefti2: Walter Hefti, Schienenseilbahnen in aller Welt, Birkhäuser, Basel-Stuttgart, 1975;

inet14: http://www.sgi.net/marbles/may96/incl2.html

inet21: http://goswitzerland.miningco.com/library/weekly/aa060697.htm

inet22: http://www.reed.edu/~reyn/LIGC.JPG

i-pe-nd: Interurbans Special No. 16, Los Angeles, 1953

kurz: E. Kurz, Die Städtebauliche Entwicklung der Stadt Wien in Beziehung zum Verkehr, as: 'Beiträge zur Stadtforschung, Stadtentwicklung und Stadtgestaltung', H.6, Magistrat der Stadt Wien, 1981

lismov: Lisboa em movimento web site (7.99);

metros: Metros der Welt. Geschichte, Technik, Betrieb, Transpress, Berlin, 1992;

monserr: Mont Serrat web site

morrster: Allen Morrison The Santa Teresa Tramway

morrsalv: Allen Morrison The Elevators & Funiculars of Salvador;

naskij: Nash Kiyev web site (7.99);

niedz: Witold Niedzielski, Kolej linowo-szynowa w Dreźnie, in: 'Świat kolei', No. 1/1998, Poznań

nkette: High above the city, Nordkette cable car web site

nycsub: Elevateds in Bronx & Brooklyn site at: http://www.nycsubway.org (8.98)

pkl: Polskie Koleje Linowe web site; sapdc: Sapporo Development Corp. web site

schimpff: Gustav Schimpff, Die Strassenbahnen in den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika, Springer, Berlin, 1903;

seak: SEAK Schweiz web site

sovfun: D. Sidorov, Sovetskiye funikulory web site;

ssb: Stuttgarter Strassenbahnen AG web site;

tramaus: Trams in Australia web site (1.99);

troske: L. Troske, Die Eisenbahnen: Das Buch der Erfindungen, Gewerbe und Industrien, IX. Band, Der Weltverkehr und seine Mittel, Spamer, Leipzig, 1901;

valp: Valparaiso web site;

vesfuni: Constantino De Vito, Vesuvius funicular, railway and chair lift web site

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