Cryptic crossword clue
Possibly unfair to include mostly select form of railway 9

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word FUNICULAR

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What does FUNICULAR mean?

FUNICULAR noun
  1. A particular type of rail transit system which ascends a steep urban or mountain incline, having usually two cars sharing a single track, with the cars linked by a cable and an arrangement of pulleys such that the descending car assists in the hoisting of the ascending car, i.e. the two cars serve as counterweights for each other.
FUNICULAR adjective
  1. Of, pertaining to, resembling, or powered by a rope or cable
  2. Of or pertaining to the umbilical cord.
  3. Having a fleshy covering of the seed formed from the funiculus, the attachment point of the seed.

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