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A family in the U.K. has one of the country’s smallest funicular railways – a type of cable railway system on an incline – at their home.

Today, the only such manually operated cable railway in the world is, of course, in San Francisco, where 27 single cars propel no trailers.

This cable railway was abandoned in the 1970s but recently reopened.

The funicular, or cable railway built on an incline, has a storied past.

Once a buzzing, wealthy suburb with its own cable railway, it is now pockmarked with shuttered businesses and boarded-up homes.