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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 ...
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.
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.
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Ebbw Vale (/ ˈ ɛ b uː v eɪ l /; Welsh: Glynebwy) is a town at the head of the valley formed by the Ebbw Fawr tributary of the Ebbw River in Wales. It is the largest town and the administrative centre of Blaenau Gwent county borough .
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Ebbw Vale railway station is located on the Main line in Queensland, Australia. It serves the suburb of Ebbw Vale in the City of Ipswich. It opened as St Helens, being renamed Ebbwvale in 1910. [1] The name was hyphenated to Ebbw-vale and officially called Ebbw Vale by 1928. [2]
Built for the Ebbw Vale Steel, Iron & Coal Co Ltd at Watchet, Somerset. Later used at Gupworthy New Mine, Somerset 428: 1883 B1 0-6-0ST 4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in: Scrapped William Gossage & Sons, Widnes: 429: Magpie: 1883 S1 0-6-0ST 4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in: Scrapped Built for Dowlais iron 431: Edward: 1884 W3 0-4-0ST 4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in: Scrapped Built ...