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Old 3rd April 2018, 09:16
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There are several in England Roger, no doubt you know. I have only seen and been on the one at Bridgnorth, Shropshire; it is near the Severn Valley Railway. It was constructed in the late 19th Century to replace the 200 steps connecting High Town to Low Town. Not the first but the oldest and steepest. It came up for sale a few years ago with a guide price of one million pounds, this also included a café at the top. The people selling were more interested in seeing that the railway would continue in its traditional way than the money. It eventually went for £750,000.
There are several in Naples that I haven’t seen despite going to Naples on a couple of occasions. There is/was one that scaled Vesuvius; the song Funiculi Funicula, was written to mark the opening, and made famous again by Mario Lanza in the 1950’s. This funicula was destroyed in the eruption of 1944; if it was rebuilt I can’t find out.
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