Another shock - funicular wont be returning in January!

[news.stv.tv] .

Oh well, they've taken the scaffold away at least, still looks shit mind and no doubt they/we will have to pay for the scaffold to return at some point before they finally give up on the white elephant that is the funicular.

So January came and went and still no updates on the 'unfunicular' little to say except what a shite show.

Copied and pasted directly from the HIE website:-


'Staff at Cairngorm Mountain have today (Wednesday 5 February) begun a series of maintenance activities on the electrical, mechanical and hydraulic systems that govern the movement of the two funicular carriages up and down the 1.8km viaduct.

Later this week, an engineer from Swiss funicular specialist Garaventa, who supplied and maintain the carriages and control system, will join the local team to carry out scheduled annual inspections of the mechanical systems.

The trains are expected to complete frequent trial runs on the mountainside over the next week or so.

Meanwhile, remediation works are continuing on the viaduct structure, led by Balfour Beatty on behalf of mountain estate owner Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE).

Although the remediation programme was substantially completed before Christmas, inspections identified a range of items requiring further work and teams from Balfour Beatty returned to the site early in January.

HIE says it continues to aim for the funicular to be safely back in service as soon as possible within the current winter season and will provide a firm date for relaunch once this can be confirmed.'


Out of interest has anybody seen any sign of any train movements or is this more fiction?

Email sent out saying it's going to start running tomorrow (27th).