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Inauguration of the funicular railway at Vesuvius, Naples, 1880 (litho)

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Inauguration of the funicular railway at Vesuvius, Naples, 1880 (litho)
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Italian School, (19th century) / Italian
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Private Collection
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lithograph
Date
1880 AD (C19th AD)
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The most famous funicular in Naples was the Mount Vesuvius Funicular (1880–1944), the first railway track in the world built on an active volcano, which was destroyed various times by Vesuvius eruptions. Partially modified to became a rack railway in its last section, it was destroyed by the eruption in 1944.

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