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Funicular! UK's Oldest Cliff Lift: Scarborough History... Funicular Railway
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- čas přidán 14. 11. 2019
- Funiculars are fun and in Scarborough on the Yorkshire Coast there is the oldest cliff lift funicular railway in the country. Transporting thousands of people each year the funicular was opened in 1875 a feat of superb Victorian engineering.
Scarborough was the country's first ever seaside resort. I covered some of that history in the previous video to this one You can check that out by clicking here... • Scarborough History: H...
Thanks to Kyle and Paul at Spa Cliff Lift, for their time during the shooting of this video.
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Have you ever been on the UK's oldest passenger carrying funicular?
I have; watching these videos has given me fond memories of visiting my grandparents in Scarborough
Dan Smith that’s great. Glad to help bring back good memories 👍🏼
Yes
That’s great 👍🏼
I never realised there were two of these in Scarborough. I only knew about the one next to Grand Hotel further up
They’re used to be 5 in scarborough at one point. Only 2 in action now.
If i had a quid for every time i'd been on that i'd have about 50 quid :P I love Scarborough!
Yorkshire also has the oldest operating water balance cliff railway a little further up the coast at Saltburn. Scarborough started out as a water balance lift, but was converted to electricity for its reopening in 1947.
I’m planning on doing a video about the Saltburn cliff lift at some point too.
@@iansmithtravels whilst you're up there, if time and weather permits I'd recommend taking the footpath behind the Ship Inn in Old Saltburn (it's part of the Cleveland Way) to the top of Hunt Cliff and around to the fan house beside the railway for the ironstone mine at Hunt Cliff. The mine closed in 1906 and is one of the more visible relics of the ironstone mines in East Cleveland. Or there's always the the incline up to the Rosedale Branch which closed in the late 1920s.
I’ll look into that thanks for the tip. Not an area I know amazingly well but I do love Saltburn.
@@iansmithtravels I was lucky enough to be born there and grew up in Marske, where Captain Cook's father is buried in the cliff top cemetery.
@@iansmithtravels dont come soon its closed for the rest of the year. Some sort of a bug going round, not in the lift thats OK it just the humans.
I feel both Clift lifts are missing a restaurant at the top and bottom it should commercially operated really.
Definitely agree there’s opportunity there that’s not taken
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THERE IS ANOTHER TRAM LIFT ON THE SOUTH BAY NEXT TO SALMONELA TOWERS THE GRAND HOTEL TAKES YOU DOWN TO THE BEACH OR UP TO THE TOWN.
What is the safety record has it ever failed?
Good question, wish I’d asked that but afraid I don’t know the answer.
@@iansmithtravels The Leas Cliff Lift in Folkestone was tested with a cut loose test and it never moved. Special brakes kick instantly stopping any movement.
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