Tuesday 20th July 2021
The Village Pump Collection goes large, with the one used by the Saltburn Tramway.
This funicular is the only one in England (and, therefore, the world) that
Sea water is pumped up the slope to fill tanks in the upper carriage and is then used as ballast weight to send it to the bottom whilst also pulling the opposite carriage (with empty ballast tanks) up to the top, where the process is repeated for the next trip.
The Tramway was created to enable the better classes to travel from their nice, headland hotels with commanding views, to the pier below.
They could then promenade out to sea in a civilised fashion and avoid the common peasantry on the seafront who were only there for the day and couldn't be trusted not to get in the way, start singing and then throw things about.
Looking at the crowd piling off the train from Middlesbrough, not much has changed over the years on that score.
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