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| Passenger car moves down the rail after being filled with water. |
Its our last week in England and we have two days riding two very different railways. On day one we road the
Lynton and Lynmouth Cliff Railway. This is a funicular water powered railway that connects the two villages Lynton and Lynmouth.
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| Us and Kate's England family at the top of the cliff in Lynton |
The rail line connects Lynmouth at the bottom to Lynton at the top, moving people and goods up the cliff. Two passenger cars capable of carrying 40 people each can be replaced with flatbeds to move goods and cargo.
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| Lynton High Street leading to the rail station. |
The railway opened in 1890 and has been in continuous use ever since. Each car has a 700 gallon water tank underneath its body. At the top of the hill the tank is filled with water and the weight of the water carries the car down the cliff and lifts the bottom car up.
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