London Banter - View Single Post - Inclined lift at Greenford Station replaces the last wooden escalator

[email protected] · November 17th 15, 12:37 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article , (Clive D.
W. Feather) wrote:

In message , Charles
Ellson wrote:
It would seem to be a false assumption that a funicular
railway is inevitably one that uses two vehicles rather than one and a
counterbalance as used on the currently out of use Broadstairs Cliff
Railway :-
http://www.theheritagetrail.co.uk/cl...roadstairs.htm
(NB 5' 3" gauge).
and the definitely-defunct Margate Cliff Railway
http://www.hows.org.uk/personal/rail/mar.htm

The only other two single-vehicle railways in the World listed in :-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...cular_railways
were both in the USA.

Only?

The Southend Cliff Lift (though it's actually in Westcliff) is single
car.

Not called a funicular we note.

So is the one at the reconstructed village near Ironbridge whose name
I forget. (I managed to persuade my youngest two daughters that it
was a house moving by magic.)

--
Colin Rosenstiel