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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 ...
Central Tramway Company, Scarborough with the Grand Hotel visible in the background. May 2019. The mechanism in the engine house was unique and used a colliery type indicator and chalk marks on the winch to inform the winding engineer when the cars had arrived at the station. [10] This meant that the winding engineer did not have a view of the ...
This is a list of funicular railways, organised by place within country and continent. The funiculars range from short urban lines to significant multi-section mountain railways. A funicular railway is distinguished from the similar incline elevator in that it has two vehicles that counterbalance one another rather than independently operated cars.
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.
A car at the top station waiting to descend, 2009. Note the presence of the brakeman to the left of the car. As built, the funicular had a pair of 12-person cars, each of which was equipped with a 240-imperial-gallon (1,100 L) water tank. They ran on parallel funicular tracks.
Funicular railways in Wales (1 C, 7 P) Pages in category "Funicular railways in the United Kingdom" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total.
The Scarborough Fair Collection is a museum of fairground mechanical organs and showman's engines, located in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, one of the largest collections of its type in Europe. [ 1 ] The museum was founded by local Farmer turned entrepreneur and owner of nearby holiday park ), Graham Atkinson, who wanted to both indulge his ...
The weight of the loaded descending cars is used to lift the ascending empties. [ 1 ] This form of cable railway can only be used to move loads downhill [ 1 ] and requires a wider space than a stationary engine-driven incline, but has the advantage of not requiring external power, and therefore costs less to operate.
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