The UK's last aerial ropeway uses no power, moves 300 tonnes a day, and will be gone by 2036.

Tom Scott · 7.9M views · 2021 · 5:27

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Explores the UK's last aerial ropeway, a historic and efficient system for transporting materials.

Linked by 8 independent sites, 2 of them widely read in the 2026-10 crawl of the open web, including newadvent.org, lowtechmagazine.com, coigame.com, tomscott.com, videacesky.cz.

Cited in 2 Wikipedia articles, including Material ropeway, Claughton, Lancaster.