Angels Flight - Definition

Angels Flight funicular railway, Bunker Hill, Los Angeles, California 1903

Angels Flight is a landmark funicular railway in the Bunker Hill district of downtown Los Angeles, California, United States which claims to be the "shortest railway in the world."

Originally built in 1901, it was closed in 1969 as the automobile rose to prominence in city transportation plans and public railways all but disappeared. The railway was restored and reopened a few blocks to the South of the original site in 1996, but hass been closed since an accident in 2001, which killed one passenger and injured seven others.

External links

• Angels Flight at USC's Los Angeles: Past, Present and Future Website (http://www.usc.edu/isd/archives/la/pubart/Downtown/figueroa/angels.html)