Description

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SO 79 SW BRIDGNORTH CASTLE HILL WALK

2/286 Upper station of
Cliff Railway

GV II

Funicular railway station. 1892. By G. Croydon Marks. Red brick and
stone dressings with mock half timbering. Plain-tile and Welsh slate
roofs with brick ridge and end stacks. Jacobethan style. 2 storeys
with canted gabled bay to left, part-glazed door to centre and, to
right, a diagonally set small 2-storey tower with tall pyramidal roof
and ornamental ironwork finial. Further to right a single-storey flat
roofed section with part-glazed double doors and windows either side
houses the ticket office and entrance to the railway cars. The
railway, the only inland funicular railway in England and the
steepest, links the "High" and "Low" towns and is 201 feet long with
a rise of 111 feet. In the first three months of its opening in July
1892, 50,000 passengers used the railway, showing the popularity of
Bridgnorth as an attraction in that period. Forms a group with the
Lower station (q,v.) to which the railway, carved out of the rock,
leads. (C.F.GWILT: A History of the Castle Hill Railway).

Listing NGR: SO7172393038

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26546057

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