Southend Cliff Railway 2019


David Bosher

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<h4><a href='/locations/S/Southend-on-Sea_Upper'>Southend-on-Sea [Upper]</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/S/Southend_Cliff_Railway'>Southend Cliff Railway</a></small></p><p>The single car of the Southend-on-Sea Cliff Railway is seen at the Upper station on Bank Holiday Monday, 26th August 2019. At 33C (94F), it was the hottest August Bank Holiday on record. Because there is only one car the counter balance is a weight that slides underneath the tracks. 1/4</p><p>26/08/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/S/Southend-on-Sea_Lower'>Southend-on-Sea [Lower]</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/S/Southend_Cliff_Railway'>Southend Cliff Railway</a></small></p><p>The cliff railway, or as it is sometimes known the Cliff Lift, at Southend-on-Sea, Essex, which opened on August Bank Holiday Monday in 1912, seen here 107 years later on the morning of Bank Holiday Monday, 26th August 2019. At 33C, this was the hottest ever recorded August Bank Holiday Monday in London and the south-east and it certainly felt like it. 2/4</p><p>26/08/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/S/Southend-on-Sea_Upper'>Southend-on-Sea [Upper]</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/S/Southend_Cliff_Railway'>Southend Cliff Railway</a></small></p><p>Exterior of the attractive upper station of the Southend Cliff Railway, Essex, opposite Clifton Terrace, on the afternoon of Bank Holiday Monday, 29th August 2022. This funicular runs on the site of a pioneering moving walkway, a forerunner of today's escalators, constructed in 1901 by an American engineer named Jesse W. Reno. This soon proved noisy and unreliable and the current lift was constructed in 1912 by Waygood & Company which, two years later, became part of the Otis Elevator Company. It was modernised in 1930, 1959 and 1990 with the car being replaced each time. It closed in 2003 for a major refurbishment but new EU regulations, that designated the lift as a cable car, required modifications and it was not until 25th May 2010 that it finally reopened, the restoration costing three million pounds with 650k spent on the car alone. 3/4</p><p>29/08/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/S/Southend-on-Sea_Lower'>Southend-on-Sea [Lower]</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/S/Southend_Cliff_Railway'>Southend Cliff Railway</a></small></p><p>View towards the Thames Estuary from the descending car on the Southend Cliff Railway, a.k.a. Southend Cliff Lift, on the afternoon of Bank Holiday Monday, 29th August 2022. 4/4</p><p>29/08/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>
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