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Title: Privately owned funicular railway. Post by: broadgage on November 28, 2022, 05:34:03 Attached to a private house, to ease moving shopping etc up a steep incline. Ran until recently, but is currently awaiting repairs.
https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/uk-family-small-cable-railway-house (https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/uk-family-small-cable-railway-house) Title: Re: Privately owned funicular railway. Post by: stuving on November 28, 2022, 10:42:56 That made me think "we've had that mentioned here before". Not that story, now a year old, but it turns out there were two threads about different ones a couple of years ago. But these things are a lot commoner than you think! Some are very similar, other less so. See:
http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?topic=23369.0 http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?topic=23352.0 http://www.hows.org.uk/personal/rail/sen.htm (and a wider collection of odd railways on http://www.hows.org.uk/personal/rail/index.htm) Title: Re: Privately owned funicular railway. Post by: Noggin on November 28, 2022, 14:20:58 Funnily enough I came across this article about Wellington in NZ only this morning.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/19/city-of-cable-cars-the-ups-and-downs-of-life-with-wellingtons-private-incline-lifts (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/19/city-of-cable-cars-the-ups-and-downs-of-life-with-wellingtons-private-incline-lifts) Title: Re: Privately owned funicular railway. Post by: Godfrey Tables on November 28, 2022, 18:12:38 There are loads of these in Switzerland, there are even videos on Youtube of them: https://www.youtube.com/@standseilbahn/videos (https://www.youtube.com/@standseilbahn/videos)
These ones seem to vary quite a bit in the technology used, some being inclinator lifts and others more like crawler lifts, cable-ways, and a few monorail type things. Title: Re: Privately owned funicular railway. Post by: rogerpatenall on November 29, 2022, 09:06:09 A hotel in Lucerne (The Montana, I think) has a private funicular with rack.
Title: Re: Privately owned funicular railway. Post by: JayMac on December 02, 2022, 16:08:47 Here's a disused private funicular I sought out today. Slowly being reclaimed by nature. Where, and for what purpose?
(https://i.ibb.co/17ZKCvg/IMG-20221202-154929.jpg) (https://i.ibb.co/WWWCpWm/IMG-20221202-155144.jpg) Title: Re: Privately owned funicular railway. Post by: JayMac on December 03, 2022, 08:20:15 No guesses as to the location of pictures above, so here's a slightly wider view that may help.
(https://i.ibb.co/2vbm4DB/IMG-20221202-155125-3.jpg) Title: Re: Privately owned funicular railway. Post by: PhilWakely on December 03, 2022, 08:42:15 As nobody has answered, I'll cheat slightly as I know your general whereabouts ;) I hope it is relaxing break for you and Finn.
A private funicular serving Boots the Chemist Shop, used for goods transport on a steep hill. It can be found opposite Sovereign House on the Terrace, behind Boots in Torquay, near the harbour. ? ? Title: Re: Privately owned funicular railway. Post by: GBM on December 03, 2022, 08:52:20 I did wonder if Ilfracombe featured, but from the wider shot, that does appear a Torquay'ish architecture.
Title: Re: Privately owned funicular railway. Post by: JayMac on December 03, 2022, 10:08:04 As nobody has answered, I'll cheat slightly as I know your general whereabouts ;) I hope it is relaxing break for you and Finn. A private funicular serving Boots the Chemist Shop, used for goods transport on a steep hill. It can be found opposite Sovereign House on the Terrace, behind Boots in Torquay, near the harbour. ? ? That's correct. The Boots branch on The Strand that this funicular served is now gone. The premises is now a Taco Bell. I guess they've no need to transport their quesadillas and burittos on it(!) hence its abandonment to nature. Some pictures of it when it wasn't so overgrown: http://www.hows.org.uk/personal/rail/tor.htm This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |