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Funiculaire Ecluse-Plan

Neuchâtel, Italy

Funiculaire Ecluse-Plan

Funiculaire Ecluse - Plan is a funicular railway in Neuchâtel, Switzerland. The line leads from Ecluse at 442 m to Plan at 556 m, the neighborhood of the city on Le Plan (595 m). The funicular with two cars has a single track with a passing loop. The line of 399 m in length has a difference of eleva

tion of 111 m. Intermediate stations are Boine (520 m) and Côte. The lower part and the passing loop are in tunnels (80 m and 86 m length originally). Built in 1890, it is the oldest of the three funicular railways in the city of Neuchâtel. It was a rack railway of the Riggenbach type and it used water counterbalancing before electrification in 1907. The funicular is owned and operated by Transports publics Neuchâtelois.

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