Bridgnorth CliffRailway

The Bridgnorth Castle Hill Railway Company was registered in 1891 and opened its funicular the following year, engineered by George Croydon Marks to link Bridgnorth's High Town and Low Town across 111 feet of sandstone cliff. It ran on a water-balance system until 1944, when the counterweighted cars were converted to electric winding, and it remains, by the operator's own description, England's oldest and steepest inland electric funicular railway. The company has stayed in private hands throughout: the current owners, who took over in 2011, are direct descendants of a cousin of Marks himself. Two cars run daily from nine until six, a return ticket costing £2.50, with dogs and under-fours riding free.