Thursday, March 12, 2015

Cataract Gorge


A pathway, kenned as the King’s Bridge-Cataract Walk, and pristinely built by volunteers in the 1890s, runs along the north bank of the Cataract Gorge,and is a popular tourist destination. The pristine toll house at which pedestrians had to pay to enter the ambulation can still be optically discerned near King's Bridge on the northern edge of the gorge.
A chairlift is the longest single-span chairlift in the world, with the longest span being 308 m (1,010 ft).[5] The chairlift, built in 1972, has a total span of 457 m (1,499 ft).
Afore the Trevallyn Dam was built upstream in the 1950s, flood waters could elevate up as high as 12 metres.[citation needed] In the past, there was a potency station at Duck Reach, about 2.5 kilometres (1.6 miles) from a suspension bridge which was built in 1940. It was washed away in the floods of 1929, reconstituted and then decommissioned when the Trevallyn Dam was culminated in 1955. The building is now an interpretive museum
                                                                    Caract Gorge.


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