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Bellevue funicular
Funiculaire de Bellevue
A sepia picture-postcard taken from a station platform, railway tracks running into the distance. Across the picture, an inclined elevated section (the funicular) runs, with a railcar midway along it.
The funicular and station around 1900. Today it is the Brimborion station on Paris Tramway Line 2
Overview
StatusDemolished
LocaleMeudon, Hauts-de-Seine
Termini
  • Bellevue-Funiculaire
  • Gare de Bellevue
Service
TypeFunicular
Rolling stockTwo bespoke cars
Ridership266,662 (1895)
171,126 (1923)
23,293 (1934)
History
Opened1893
Closed1934
Technical
Line length183 m (600 ft)
Number of tracks1, with 1 passing loop
Rack systembespoke
Track gauge1,440 mm (4 ft 8+1116 in)
Operating speed2 m/s (7.2 km/h; 4.5 mph)

The Bellevue funicular (French: funiculaire de Bellevue), in Meudon, Hauts-de-Seine department, was from 1893 to 1934 a funicular running from the Bellevue-Funiculaire station[1] on the Coteaux line (today, Brimborion), to the Gare de Bellevue, on the Paris–Brest railway line.

  1. ^ This stop was created in 1893 for interchange with the funicular. Angelier 2003

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