The Lynton & Lynmouth Cliff Railway was awarded a BRONZE award for the Large Visitor Attraction of the year 2018 with the Devon Tourism Awards. The announcement was made at the Visit Devon Awards Ceremony at Highbullen Hotel, Golf & Country Club on the 22nd November 2018. The annual competition, now in its 9th year, saw over 164 entries across Devon tourism business with just 78 selected as finalists. Of the finalists, in the Large Visitor Attraction of the Year category, the Lynton and Lynmouth Cliff Railway scooped BRONZE, Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery was awarded Silver and the […]
The Lynton & Lynmouth Cliff Railway’s newest driver, Tasha Clarke, will release the first car of the new season on Saturday February 9th at 10am. Local HM Coastguard Lynmouth volunteer, Tasha, was born in Lynton and has worked at the railway for 5 years, initially undertaking part-time work in the ticket office before expressing her interest to qualify as a driver. Tasha, 25, follows in the footsteps of her father, Ashley Clarke, who is the Chief Engineer and General Manager and has worked at the railway since 1979 and together they are the first father and daughter driving team in […]
The sun shone down all day on the annual Cliff Railway Day Victorian & Steampunk Celebration at Lynton and Lynmouth, and the crowds were out in force to help celebrate and party like it was 1888. The unique Cliff Railway, the highest and steepest fully water powered Cliff Railway in the world, has been carrying locals and visitors between the two towns for almost one hundred and thirty years, since the reign of Queen Victoria. And a right royal time was had by all, as Queen Victoria and other members of her family attended and greeted visitors within the town […]
Following a recent visit to Lynton and Lynmouth, Year 6 student, Louis, from St Michaels Prep School in Kent was inspired to make a fully working scale model of the Lynton & Lynmouth Cliff Railway. The St Michael’s Homework Challenge had asked the children to choose a British inventor or invention and create something to show what they had achieved and how. Following his families recent half-term visit to Lynton and Lynmouth, where they had all travelled on the water powered Cliff Railway, Louis chose the “Victorious Victorians” as his homework challenge and set about building his very own working […]