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    Cliff funicular railway now on at-risk register

    Nov 19, 2019 2 minutes
    By Robin Jones
    CHARLOTTE CROFTON/CREATIVE COMMONS

    FOLKESTONE’S closed Leas Lift has been added to Historic England’s list of sites at risk of being lost.

    The Grade II* listed funicular railway in Kent was built in 1885 to carry passengers between the seafront and the promenade. It is one of only three remaining water-balanced lifts

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