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

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?

On 17/11/2015 13:37, wrote:
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?

Only on that particular list, perhaps.

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

Not called a funicular we note.

If you are excluding anything not officially called Foo Funicular, that
would rule a lot of Cliff Lifts, Tramways and similar.


--
Arthur Figgis Surrey, UK

On Tue, 17 Nov 2015 10:07:02 +0000, "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 only ones listed there as currently in use...

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

.... and "single-car", which the Southend one doesn't have in its
description..
There could be others.

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.)