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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 ...
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.
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.
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Pages in category "Funicular railways in Wales" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. ... Ebbw Vale Garden Festival Funicular; G.
Ebbw Vale Town railway station; Ebbw Valley Railway; G. Ebbw Vale Garden Festival Funicular This page was last edited on 31 December 2018, at 22:03 (UTC). ...
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[3] [4] On 2 September 1867, a branch was opened to Ebbw Vale. [5] [6] The branch service started at Brynmawr and, prior to 1925, there was a daily service of more than thirty trains each way. [7] [8] [9] Ebbw Vale was reached by the 93-yard (85 m) Beaufort Viaduct before reaching Ebbw Vale Junction and the 93-yard (85 m) Rhyd Viaduct. [10]