A cable railway (also known as an incline or inclined plane) is a steeply graded railway that uses a cable or rope to haul trains.
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Famous quotes containing the words cable and/or railway:
“To be where little cable cars climb halfway to the stars.”
—Douglass Cross (b. 1920)
“Her personality had an architectonic quality; I think of her when I see some of the great London railway termini, especially St. Pancras, with its soot and turrets, and she overshadowed her own daughters, whom she did not understand—my mother, who liked things to be nice; my dotty aunt. But my mother had not the strength to put even some physical distance between them, let alone keep the old monster at emotional arm’s length.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)