Lyon Metro Line C
Line C () of the Lyon Metro is the modern incarnation of the "Funiculaire Croix-Rousse - Croix-Paquet" ("Croix-Rousse - Croix-Paquet Funicular"), an old cable-hauled railway operating on part of the current alignment. In 1891, the original funicular line was opened, running between its namesake stations. After surviving the closure of the nearby "funiculaire Rue Terme - Croix-Rousse" in 1967, this line closed in 1972 for refurbishment and conversion to rack railway technology, reopening for service in 1974 (four years before lines A and B opened). When it was integrated with the metro as Lyon  Metro Line C in 1978, the line's southern end was extended from "Croix-Paquet" to "Hôtel-de-Ville" (City Hall), also equipped with rack rail. A further extension of Line C opened on December 8, 1984, when its northern end was extended from Croix-Rousse to "Cuire" as an adhesion railway (no rack). The line now serves five stations, and is long. It was constructed using various methods: the original route used by the former funicular line runs up a steep incline rising from a deep tunnel to an exposed trench, the newly built level segment at "Croix-Rousse  using cut-and-cover, and the latest section beyond Hénon" running on the surface. "Croix Paquet" station claims to be the steepest metro station in the world, with an incline of 17%. The repurposed alignment of the original funicular from "Croix-Paquet" to "Croix-Rousse" is among the world's oldest structures currently used by metro trains, having first opened in 1891.