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On 17.11.15 1:15, wrote:
On Tue, 17 Nov 2015 00:38:07 +0000, "
wrote:

There's one in Switzerland on that list, and a former one on IoM, which are
single car funiculars.

Anna Noyd-Dryver

What about the funicular at Aberystwyth?

That has two cars, they have buffers at the lower end which appear to
have come off ordinary goods wagons. Can't really see the point of
them as if the car was to descend out of control they won't actually
do much,perhaps they are there to let the car rest against something
if it has to be detached during cable maintainance but what would pass
for a buffer stop was in a state of collapse when I visited a few
months back.
Maybe it is for a cosmetic look to make the cars seem more train like
for the Thomas the Tank generation.
http://www.nwrail.org.uk/vc121010-aberystwyth-3.jpg

G.Harman

Do any of the UK funiculars use tokens for fare payment and entrance?