Mountain route
Montjuïc Funicular
Barcelona (Paral·lel) → Parc de Montjuïc · Spain
Montjuïc Funicular in pictures
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- Distance
- 0.76 km
- Fastest time
- 2 min
- Average speed
- 23 km/h
- Operator
- TMB
- Train
- Twin three-car trains from the 1992 Olympic rebuild
- Countries
- Spain
- In service since
- 1928
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Metro-integrated since 1928 and rebuilt for the 1992 Olympics — among Europe’s highest-capacity funiculars at 8,000 passengers an hour.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 2756041 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 1 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits 1.9 km from the shape of R 15041 (Zug-Nr. 15041)
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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