Comments on: Folkestone – The end of the Leas Cliff Lift !

By: Funimag

Funimag — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 19:12:54 +0000

Hello Terry… thank you for your comment! Yes I heard that Folkestone Cliff Lift has reopened… fortunately! Thanks also for the website link…

By: Terry Begent

Terry Begent — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 17:40:24 +0000

The lift has reopened and has been in full service since the 26th July 2010 after a group of local citizens signed a management agreement with the Folkestone Estate (The landlords)and formed a non-profit-making company to run the lift as a living museum to Victorian ingenuity. Follow the http://www.leasliftfolkestone.co.uk/ link for full details

By: Don Newing

Don Newing — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:56:35 +0000

I am so sorry to see it close. I can remember it as a child when my family used to visit relatives in Folkestone in the 1950s. At that time the second lift alongside the present one was also in use. I also remember visiting the pumping station at the bottom of the lift, which used electric power to return the water to the top. The electric motor had a large brass maker’s plate on it, but it had been polished so may times over the years that the lettering had completely disappeared!

By: Pat Malham

Pat Malham — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:33:34 +0000

Sorry to see this cliff lift disappear. I believe that this only leaves three water-powered funiculars still working in Britain, Saltburn, Lynton & Lynmouth, and the Centre for Alternative Technology at Machynlleth

By: Dave Carson

Dave Carson — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:20:12 +0000

Once reported to be Britain’s noisiest railway! Every wheel, drum, sheaf squealed loudly to the point of being deafening as it moved!