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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 new hospital, which was built at a cost of £53 million and stands on the site of the former Ebbw Vale Steelworks, opened in October 2010. [ 2 ] It was the first NHS hospital to be built in England or Wales with 100% single room, ensuite facilities to help control infection and improve privacy. [ 3 ]
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. [25] The lift was built by ABS Transportbahnen (Doppelmayr Garaventa Group). [26] Its length is 57 metres (187 ft) and has a vertical lift is 24 metres (79 ft).
The hospital was established by the conversion of two houses (one belonging to the Ebbw Vale Steelworks manager and one belonging to the Steelworks surgeon) in 1900. [1] [2] It joined the National Health Service in 1948 [1] and, following the successful development of community-based health services, closed as a public sector healthcare institution in 2005. [3]
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. 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)