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The Ebbw Vale Garden Festival Funicular was a funicular railway built to carry visitors around the Ebbw Vale Garden Festival in 1992. The funicular was intended as a viewpoint across the festival site, as much as a means of transport between levels, and so at 920 metres (3,020 ft) it was quite long by funicular standards although had only a ...
Subsequent festivals were held in Stoke-on-Trent (1986), Glasgow (1988), Gateshead (1990) and Ebbw Vale Garden Festival (1992) which eventually won the competition. The festivals were highly successful in attracting millions of visitors from all over the country to industrial areas long ignored by British tourists.
Ebbw Vale. Ebbw Vale Garden Festival Funicular (1992–1992) Ebbw Vale Cableway (opened 2015, 75 foot rise) Llandudno, Great Orme Tramway / Tramffordd y Gogarth (opened 1902) Machynlleth, Centre for Alternative Technology, CAT Funicular – water balanced; Swansea, Constitution Hill Incline Tramway (1898–1902)
The Ebbw Vale Cableway. A kilometre-long funicular was part of the Garden Festival in 1992, but closed afterwards. In June 2015 a new inclined elevator, the Ebbw Vale Cableway, was opened. [26] The lift was built by ABS Transportbahnen (Doppelmayr Garaventa Group). [27] Its length is 57 metres (187 ft) and has a vertical lift is 24 metres (79 ft).
Ebbw Vale Town railway station; Ebbw Valley Railway; G. Ebbw Vale Garden Festival Funicular This page was last edited on 31 December 2018, at 22:03 (UTC). ...
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This is a list of inclined elevators, organised by place within country and region.. An inclined elevator is distinguished from the similar funicular railway in that its cars operate independently whereas funiculars are composed of two vehicles that synchronously counterbalance one another.
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