Tünel /The Oldest Funicular

This oldest funicular is also the oldest funiculars in the world. Not only it is a funicular but it is seen as one of the oldest subways in the world after that of London in 1863 and New York in 1868! But ' Ficelle' of Lyon, the first French subway as old as that of London, which was used as model for the first funicular of Istanbul, Tünel! 130 years after the startup of its first funicular, Istanbul has a second funicular now, that started at the the end of 2005 which also connect, like Tünel, the bank of the Bosphorus to the district of Beyoglu: Taksim.