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Scarborough South Cliff Tramway Company
All photographs of this railway in date order.
![The South Bay Tramway at Scarborough on 3 October 2009. The short ride saves 224 steps up the South Cliff.<br><br>[Colin Miller 03/10/2009]](/images/26000/26846.jpg "Scarborough South Bay")
![The second of Scarborough's still-operational funiculars, the South Cliff Lift, looking east over the top station on 22 March 2010. This was just a few days before 'the season' started, with that strange feeling of 'calm before the storm' that still pervades seaside resorts at this time of year. Opened in 1875 by the Scarborough South Cliff Tramway Company Limited, the South Cliff Lift was the UK's first funicular. Originally built on the counterweight principle using sea water [see image 26874] it is now electrically operated and was further modified in 1997 to make it completely automatic. <br>
<br><br>[John Furnevel 22/03/2010]](/images/28000/28794.jpg "Scarborough")
