Mountain route
Flying Dutchman Funicular
Cape Point car park → Cape Point lighthouse · South Africa
- Distance
- 0.59 km
- Fastest time
- 3 min
- Average speed
- 12 km/h
- Operator
- Cape Point Partnership
- Train
- Two 40-seat cars named after ships wrecked off the Cape
- Countries
- South Africa
- In service since
- 1996
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Africa’s only commercial funicular, named for the ghost ship said to haunt Cape Point, lifts visitors 87 m toward the 1859 lighthouse.
How this line was checked
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 33 m from it
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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