Fløibanen
Century-old funicular climbing steeply from the old town to a mountaintop viewpoint over the harbour.
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This guide to Fløibanen in Bergen starts on a winter day in nineteen eighteen, when an electric motor first hummed at the foot of Mount Fløyen, and reaches back to the politician who dreamed up the line decades earlier. It follows the money behind a mountain railway: a concession, a share company, and a world war that got in the way. Best heard at the lower station, watching the car come down the rails.
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