| Sorrento Funicular | |
|---|---|
 Hotel Vittoria with former lower terminus | |
| Overview | |
| Native name | Funicolare di Sorrento |
| Status | Defunct |
| Locale | Sorrento, Italy, Municipality of Naples |
| Stations | 2 |
| Service | |
| Type | Inclined Railway, marketed as a Funicular |
| System | Steam-driven |
| History | |
| Opened | 1883 |
| Technical | |
| Line length | 0.26 km (0.16 mi) |
The Sorrento Funicular was a steam-driven, inclined rail system located in the commune of Sorrento, within the Municipality of Naples, Italy — connecting its upper terminus at Sorrento's Hotel Vittoria to the resort's port, several hundred feet below on the Gulf of Naples. The system was designed by Italian engineer Alessandro Ferretti (1851 - 1930),[1] began operating in 1883 and stopped operating approximately three years later.
Using only a single passenger car, the system was a funicular in name only, as a funicular by definition counterbalances two cars attached to opposite ends of the same pully-driven cable, operating in concert.[2][3]
- ^ Giuliano Zannotti (June 6, 2017). "Italy: the first 100 years. Ropeways from 1850 to 1950". OITAF Bozen Balzano Congress 2017.
- ^ The Giessbach Funicular with the World's First Abt Switch (PDF). The American Society of Mechanical Engineers. 2015.
- ^ Kittelson & Assoc; Parsons Brinckerhoff; KFH Group; Texas A&M Transportation Institute; Arup (2013). "Chapter 11: Glossary and Symbols". Transit Capacity and Quality of Service Manual Report 165 (Third ed.). Washington: Transportation Research Board. pp. 11–20. doi:10.17226/24766. ISBN 978-0-309-28344-1.