Gubałówka Hill funicular

As in all funiculars, on the Gubałówka, a continuous steel cable is attached to a pair of tram-like carriages set at a steep angle on narrow gauge rails[clarification needed].

These two carriages travel up and down the steep mountain slope, the ascending and descending vehicles counterbalancing each other in turn.

The line is single, apart from one automatically controlled passing place situated roughly halfway up.

An overbridge carries a ski-run over the line, otherwise the route is uninterrupted, a single station being present at either end.

The large numbers of visitors (around three million per year[2]), especially in the winter months, inspired the venture, opened in 1938, and the line remains popular, having been rebuilt in 2001 with new carriages and stations.