Mountain route
Tbilisi Funicular
Tbilisi (Chonkadze Street) → Mtatsminda Park · Georgia
View on the map →Wikipedia (KA) ↗
Tbilisi’s 1905 funicular to Mtatsminda, the city’s highest viewpoint — derelict after 2000, rebuilt by Doppelmayr Garaventa and reopened 2012.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 13939020 — 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
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
- See for yourself: open this line on the map with OpenStreetMap's own railway drawn underneath it
Questions and answers
How long is the Tbilisi Funicular?
The Tbilisi Funicular runs 500 m from Tbilisi (Chonkadze Street) to Mtatsminda Park.
How long does the Tbilisi Funicular take?
The fastest scheduled journey is 3 min for the 500 m. That is an average of 10 km/h end to end.
Who runs the Tbilisi Funicular?
Mtatsminda Park, with Doppelmayr Garaventa cars from the 2012 reconstruction.
How old is the Tbilisi Funicular?
The line has been in service since 1905. That is the year the atlas dates it from: for a modern brand running over an older railway, it is the railway's date, not the brand's.
More mountain routes
- Jungfraubahn
Tunnels INSIDE the Eiger to Europe’s highest station at 3,454 m, the “Top of Europe” since 1912.
Wikipedia ↗ - Nilgiri Mountain Railway
India’s only rack railway: X-class steam pushes the blue coaches up 1-in-12 grades from palm plains to Ooty’s tea hills; UNESCO-listed in 2005.
Wikipedia ↗ - West Coast Wilderness Railway
The 1896 copper railway hauls itself up 1-in-16 grades on Abt rack cogs, steaming once more from Queenstown’s bare hills into the King River rainforest.
Wikipedia ↗ - Gornergrat Bahn
Europe’s highest open-air railway climbs from Zermatt to 3,089 m: the Matterhorn framed in the window from the first curve to the summit ridge.
Wikipedia ↗
More train routes in Georgia.