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The first cliff railway to be built in Great Britain was the South Cliff Tramway (now called the Spa Cliff Lift), Scarborough in 1875, and the first of five Scarborough funiculars to be built between 1875 and 1930. The Scarborough South Cliff Tramway Company Limited was created in 1873 to link the hotels of the South Cliff Esplanade with the ...
Scarborough North Bay Railway (SNBR) is a ridable miniature railway (also known as a minimum-gauge railway) in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England. It was built in 1931, [ 2 ] to the gauge of 20 in ( 508 mm ), and runs for approximately 7 ⁄ 8 mile (1.4 km) between Peasholm Park and Scalby Mills in the North Bay area of the town.
Spa Lift. During 1873, the Scarborough South Cliff Tramway Company Limited was created to construct the first funicular railway in the United Kingdom. [1] It had long been recognised that the height difference between the town and its beaches was a geographical hindrance to the burgeoning tourism industry, and the construction of a funicular was viewed as a means of better facilitating, and ...
Map of NER's routes at Scarborough Former signal gantry in July 1986. Scarborough station opened on Monday 7 July 1845, following the completion of the line from York.The first train, consisting of 35 coaches, was hauled by two locomotives named Hudson and Lion and arrived in Scarborough at 1:35 p.m., having stopped at Castle Howard, Malton and Ganton, taking just over three hours.
At West Cliff, trains would journey north along the coastal Whitby, Redcar & Middlesbrough Union Railway towards Staithes and Loftus, and south across the Larpool Viaduct towards Scarborough. The Whitby, Redcar and Middlesbrough Union Railway was closed in the 1950s .
The station was 15 miles 22 chains (24.6 km) north of Scarborough Central railway station, and 6 miles 53 chains (10.7 km) south of Whitby West Cliff. Some services reversed at West Cliff and descended the branch into Whitby Town, which was a further 1 mile 63 chains (2.9 km). [21] [22]
Even so, it was quicker to travel on the railway from Middlesbrough and Stockton to Scarborough than by road. [10] The line was single track throughout, but all stations, bar Sandsend, had passing loops. [11] Map of route and surrounding railways. The section ran from Whitby to Loftus, where it joined the NER Middlesbrough – Loftus route head on.
The timetable from 1906 shows the same number of services, however, five trains continued on to Scarborough. [17] By 1910, the services were still six per day each way, however only three services went on to Scarborough (though connections could be made at Whitby West Cliff to Scarborough bound services). [18]