Mountain route
Zagreb Funicular (Uspinjača)
Zagreb (Tomićeva ulica) → Zagreb Upper Town · Croatia
Zagreb Funicular (Uspinjača) in pictures
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- Distance
- 0.07 km
- Fastest time
- 1 min
- Average speed
- 4 km/h
- Operator
- ZET
- Train
- Two 28-passenger cars, fully renovated 2024–26
- Countries
- Croatia
- In service since
- 1890
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
At 66 m one of the world’s shortest public funiculars, linking Zagreb’s Lower and Upper Towns since 1890.
How this line was checked
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 147 m from it
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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