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The Great Orme Tramway is Britain’s only funicular, or cable-hauled, tramway that travels on public roads. The one mile line, which runs in two sections, opened in 1902. The equipment was supplied by aerial ropeway specialists R White & Son of Widnes.

Central Tramway in Scarborough is the oldest surviving tramway company in the country It was established in 1881 and is still owned and operated by the same company that established the Tramway. The tracks are 234 feet long and the gradient of the incline is 1 in 2.8. The counterbalanced carriages are driven by a 60 horsepower electric motor.

The cliff lift at Saltburn-by-the-Sea is one of the oldest in the world having opened on 28th June 1884 having replaced a vertical lift that was closed in 1883 on safety grounds. This standard gauge funicular railway operates on the water balance system and raises passengers up the 120ft cliff on a gradient of 1:1.33. The bottom station for the lift is situated behind the red and cream painted buildings which are associated with the 1869 pier on which I was stood.