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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.
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)
Pages in category "Defunct funicular railways" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. ... Ebbw Vale Garden Festival Funicular; F. First Falcon ...
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). ...
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. [26] The lift was built by ABS Transportbahnen (Doppelmayr Garaventa Group). [27] Its length is 57 metres (187 ft) and has a vertical lift is 24 metres (79 ft).
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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 ...