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Angels Flight

90013 Los Angeles, CA, United States of America (USA) (California)
Address 351 South Hill Street
 
 
Floor area unfortunately not known yet  
 
Museum typ
Mountain Railways & Cableways

Opening times
 daily: 6:45 in the morning until 10:00 at night.

Admission
Status from 03/2018
 one-way fare is $1.00; Holders of valid Metro passes: 50 cents
Contact
Tel.:+1-213-626-19 01  eMail:https://angelsflight.org/contact-page  
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Location / Directions
N34.051348° W118.250226°N34°3.08088' W118°15.01356'N34°3'4.8528" W118°15'0.8136"
The Railway’s Top Station is located at California Plaza, 350 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles 90071.

The Lower Station is located at 351 South Hill Street, Los Angeles 90013, across from Grand Central Market.
Description

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Angels Flight is a landmark 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) narrow gauge funicular railway in the Bunker Hill district of Downtown Los Angeles, California. It has two funicular cars, Sinai and Olivet, running in opposite directions on a shared cable on the 298 feet (91 m) long inclined railway.

The funicular has operated on two different sites, using the same cars and station elements. The original Angels Flight location, with tracks connecting Hill Street and Olive Street, operated from 1901 until it was closed in 1969, when its site was cleared for redevelopment.

The second Angels Flight location opened one half block south of the original location in 1996, with tracks connecting Hill Street and California Plaza. It was shut down in 2001, following a fatal accident, and took nine years to commence operations again. The railroad restarted operations on March 15, 2010] It was closed again from June 10, 2011, to July 5, 2011, and then again after a minor derailment incident on September 5, 2013. The investigation of this 2013 incident led to the discovery of potentially serious safety problems in both the design and the operation of the funicular. Before the 2013 service suspension, the cost of a one-way ride was 50 cents (25 cents for Metro pass holders). Angels Flight service had been suspended since that time. In March 2017 an announcement was made that the line would be reopened later in the year after safety enhancements were completed; Angel's Flight reopened for public service on August 31, 2017.

Reopening

On March 1, 2017, it was announced by Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti that Angels Flight could be working again by Labor Day 2017. The reopening will be made possible after safety upgrades are made to the doors of the cars and an evacuation walkway is added to the track. These enhancements will be made by ACS Infrastructure Development through an agreement with Angels Flight Railway Foundation in exchange for a share of the funicular’s revenue over the next three decades. At the time of the announcement, officials said that the cost of the repairs and value of the contract were confidential. Angel's Flight reopened for public service on August 31, 2017

 
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