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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.
Defunct funicular railways in the United States (33 P) Pages in category "Defunct funicular railways" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total.
The Monongahela incline also has the distinction of being the first funicular in the United States for strictly passenger use and not freight. [21] In 1880 the funicular of Mount Vesuvius inspired the Italian popular song Funiculì, Funiculà. This funicular was destroyed repeatedly by volcanic eruptions and abandoned after the eruption of 1944 ...
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.
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 line closed from Beaufort Iron Works to Ebbw Vale station in 1952; and from there to Ebbw Vale Works in 1975; and the section from Waunllwyd Colliery to Ebbw Vale Works was closed from 1976 - 1989. Park Junction to Courtybella closed in 1981. The Cwmtillery Colliery branch closed in 1962. [32] [page needed] [33] [page needed] [30] [page needed]