Stunning picture of 127 year old wheel being lifted from West Hill Lift at Hastings

By The Newsroom
Published 25th Sep 2019, 09:08 BST
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Hastings Council marketing and Major Projects chief Kevin Boorman captured this amazing shot of the West Hill lift’s ‘winding wheel’ being removed on Monday.

The wheel, which is crucial to the operating of the 127 year old funicular railway, is on its way to a specialist foundry Sheffield to be repaired after engineers identified a problem with it during the summer.

It resulted in the lift being closed during the busy summer months.

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