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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 ...
The Festival Park site is identifiable today but little of the festival infrastructure remains. The lakes at the lower part of the site are the most obvious relic. The upper end of the funicular is now a retail park. Of the five National Garden Festivals, none of them saw the hoped-for boom in development immediately after closure.
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.
Ebbw Vale Garden Festival Funicular; G. Great Orme Tramway; S. Swansea Constitution Hill Incline Tramway This page was last edited on 30 April 2021, at 21:20 (UTC). ...
of the six "Box" 0-4-0STs bought by the Ebbw Vale Company in 1855. [120] 37 [121] Beyer Peacock: 1881 1879 4-4-0T 1907–1910 Built for Metropolitan Railway and rebuilt in 1889. It was sold for £200 in 1910 to Bute Works Supply Company. [122] 212 [123] Beyer Peacock: 248 1861 2-4-0 1911–1917 Used in Automatic Train Control trials. [124] 213 ...
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Eventing (also known as three-day eventing or horse trials) is an equestrian event where a single horse and rider combine and compete against other competitors across the three disciplines of dressage, cross-country, and show jumping. This event has its roots in a comprehensive cavalry test that required mastery of several types of riding.