Funiculaire du Capucin, Electric funicular railway in Mont-Dore, France

The Funiculaire du Capucin is a metre-gauge funicular in Mont-Dore, climbing 175 metres over 448.5 metres of track at a maximum gradient of 56 percent. Its two 1897 cars, with Swiss Bell chassis and green panelling, run on a single track with a central Abt passing loop. The lower station stands at 1,070 metres on rue René-Cassin; the upper station, the Salon du Capucin, sits at 1,245 metres.

In 1894 Jean Giraudon, a public works contractor from Perrier, obtained a 70-year concession from Mont-Dore for a local electric funicular railway, with no subsidy or interest guarantee. Service began on 20 June 1898, making it France's first electric funicular. Construction was supervised by A. Guitton et Cie of Saint-Étienne, with several firms involved. The line and its two stations were inscribed as monuments historiques on 28 December 1984.

The name Capucin comes from the lava dome above the upper station, the Salon du Capucin at 1,245 m. The two cars keep their 1898 appearance, with a Swiss Bell chassis, and the haulage machinery still sits in the upper station, where visitors can see it. The line runs from spring to autumn.

The line runs from spring to autumn, not year-round, covering 448.5 metres at one metre per second with a maximum gradient of 56 percent. The lower station sits on rue René-Cassin at 1,070 metres in the south of Mont-Dore; the upper stop is the Salon du Capucin at 1,245 metres.

The two cars date from 1897 and kept their 1898 appearance; their chassis is a model by the Swiss builder Bell. The winding machinery, made by the Fournier et Cornue workshops with an Oerlikon (MFO) motor, still stands in the upper station and can be seen there.