Upper Station Of Cliff Railway

The following buildings shall be added:-

SO 79 SW BRIDGNORTH CASTLE HILL WALK

2/286 Upper station of Cliff Railway

GV II

Funicular railway station. 1892. By G. Croydon Marks. Red brick and stone dressings with mock half timbering. Plain-tile and Welsh slate roofs with brick ridge and end stacks. Jacobethan style. 2 storeys with canted gabled bay to left, part-glazed door to centre and, to right, a diagonally set small 2-storey tower with tall pyramidal roof and ornamental ironwork finial. Further to right a single-storey flat roofed section with part-glazed double doors and windows either side houses the ticket office and entrance to the railway cars. The railway, the only inland funicular railway in England and the steepest, links the "High" and "Low" towns and is 201 feet long with a rise of 111 feet. In the first three months of its opening in July 1892, 50,000 passengers used the railway, showing the popularity of Bridgnorth as an attraction in that period. Forms a group with the Lower station (q,v.) to which the railway, carved out of the rock, leads. (C.F.GWILT: A History of the Castle Hill Railway).

Listing NGR: SO7172393038