The most impressive example of practical use of Fluid Power
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At the end of the nineteenth century, the use of hydraulic Fluid Power was pretty much universal. It powered business and industry in ways that would fundamentally change Britain. Workers came from the country to live and work in cities. Still, the technology was used to create an incredible piece of technology that ignores the use of diesel and petrol, nor does it look to rely on an electrical battery. It is a funicular railway, and it is powered purely by decent Devon spring water. It is the Lynton and Lynmouth funicular railway.
Lynton and Lynmouth are two incredibly picturesque villages on the North Devon coast. They sit near the edge of the mouth of the Bristol Channel and at the far North Westly end of the Dunkery and Horner Wood Nature reserve. On a clear day, you can see all the way over to Swansea and Porthcawl in Wales. The Cliff between the two villages is steep, so getting goods and people between the two was considered to be near impossible using traditional methods.
The cliff railway was built in 1888 and is still very much in use today. Using a gravity-fed fluid power system, it carries tourists up the longest and steepest funicular railway in the world. It runs purely on sustainable water from the river Lyn. It’s reputed to be one of the greenest railway systems in the world having, never used coal or diesel to power any part of it. It’s a job that dana-sac.co.uk/fluid-power/ who supply Fluid Power systems, would love to create at some point.
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