Welcome to Bridgnorth Cliff Railway England's Oldest and Steepest Inland Electric Funicular Railway! For over a century Bridgnorth Cliff Railway has been transporting the people of Bridgnorth up and down the 111 ft sandstone cliffs that separate High Town from Low Town, and the River Severn.

The oldest operating funicular railway in the United Kingdom is the Scarborough Spa Cliff Lift, located in North Yorkshire. It was opened on July 6, 1875, and was a masterpiece of Victorian engineering designed to transport visitors between the South Cliff and the Spa complex on the beach. Originally powered by a hydraulic water-balance system, it was later converted to electricity in the mid-20th century. While there were earlier experimental "inclined planes" in industrial settings, the Scarborough Spa lift was the first purpose-built passenger funicular in the country. Today, it remains a protected Grade II listed structure and a functional part of the seaside town's heritage, still carrying thousands of tourists every summer. Its success in the 1870s triggered a "funicular boom" across British coastal resorts, leading to the construction of similar lifts in places like Saltburn (home to the oldest water-balanced lift) and Aberystwyth, but Scarborough retains the title of the very first to open to the public.

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