Video Georgian cable cars

Neil

Western Thunderer
Whilst researching cable hauled railways on the interweb I stumbled across this series of photos of the cable cars of Chiatura. They manage to be beautiful and ugly at the same time with more than a dash of frightening thrown into the mix too. Once I hit the images I became slightly obsessed (can you be slightly obsessed?) and started to search for video too. Surprisingly there's quite a bit but this one was my favourite.


Then there are the trolleybuses too.


Finally an article showing the narrow gauge railway serving the mines.
 

Andrew Campbell

Western Thunderer
When I saw the title of this thread it reminded me of an ad outside a shop on the outskirts of Eastbourne (IIRC) - 40 0r more years ago - which proclaimed proudly that it stocked "genuine Regency gas log fires"!
 

Jordan

Mid-Western Thunderer
Must admit I was thinking more in terms of Georgian Era rather than Country, & thinking they didn't have cable cars, or trains, etc?? :confused:
Then I read the OP.... :rolleyes: :oops:
 

AJC

Western Thunderer
Must admit I was thinking more in terms of Georgian Era rather than Country, & thinking they didn't have cable cars, or trains, etc?? :confused:
Then I read the OP.... :rolleyes: :oops:

With my historical pedant's hat on (sorry, but it is my day job). There were quite a few railways before 1830 when the Georgian era, if you want to call it that, ended - William IV succeeded George IV in June of that year - and some quite famous examples, notably the Stockton and Darlington and the Monkland and Kirkintilloch, both locomotive-worked, together with a number of private railways: Puffing Billy, even as rebuilt and now preserved, is a Georgian machine! :)

The Liverpool and Manchester and Canterbury and Whitstable also just about sneak in, being opened just before George IV popped his silk slippers. Those cable cars have an almost steam punk air to them, only unlike steam punk, they clearly work.

Adam
 
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