Dresden’s funicular railway is one of the few notable sites that survived the bombings of WWII. Its two carriages, original from when the railway opened in 1895, were hidden in a tunnelled section and spared from destruction. I also wanted to ride on the Schwebebahn, a hanging railway nearby, but it was closed the day I visited.
With a maximum incline of 29%, the funicular takes passengers from the bank of the River Elbe to Luisenhof. Its unusual alignment brings it onto a bridge over a valley between two hills. It used to be steam-powered until 1910 when it was electrified. The carriages were refurbished in 2014 to its current appearance.
