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The UK's last aerial ropeway uses no power, moves 300 tonnes a day, and will be gone by 2036.
- Published_at:2021-07-12
- Category:Education
- Channel:Tom Scott
- tags: tom scott tomscott
- description: In Claughton, Lancashire, the Forterra brickworks produces 50 million bricks a year, from shale that's quarried a mile and a half away. To get that shale to the brickworks: the last aerial ropeway in the country. These used to be common: but now, the last one will be gone by 2036. Thanks to all the team at Forterra: https://www.forterra.co.uk/ Thanks to Dave Martin for the idea! Edited by Michelle Martin (@mrsmmartin) Filmed safely: https://www.tomscott.com/safe/ I'm at https://tomscott.com on Twitter at https://twitter.com/tomscott on Facebook at https://facebook.com/tomscott and on Instagram as tomscottgo I've got a newsletter now! It goes out every week and includes interesting links I've found while researching that week: https://www.tomscott.com/newsletter/ And there's an experimental second channel in progress: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNyOrINHtdM
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