Cairngorm Claims Funicular Will Re-Open this Winter
5th February 2025
Last modified on February 9th, 2025
A new strand of work is underway to prepare the Cairngorm funicular railway to return to service this winter.
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 has begun.
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.
Image supplied by Cairngorm Mountain
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.
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