Mountain route
Old Quebec Funicular
Quebec City (Petit-Champlain) → Dufferin Terrace · Canada
Old Quebec Funicular in pictures
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- Distance
- 0.06 km
- Fastest time
- 1 min
- Average speed
- 4 km/h
- Operator
- Funiculaire du Vieux-Québec
- Train
- Two independent panoramic cabins from the 1998 rebuild
- Countries
- Canada
- In service since
- 1879
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Scaling Cap Diamant at 45 degrees since 1879, it links Petit-Champlain’s boutiques to Dufferin Terrace beside the Château Frontenac.
How this line was checked
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, on it to within a metre
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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