National Railway Museum Inclinator

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The National Railway Museum Inclinator is a short funicular railway located inside the National Railway Museum in the English city of York.

The principal purpose of the Museum Inclinator is to provide step-free access from the main hall of the museum to the workshop gallery, from which the public can look down onto the museum's workshop and its in-progress restoration work. Besides this primary function, the inclinator also serves to demonstrate the workings of a funicular railway. To that end the inclinator operates within the main hall and its workings are exposed in the style of a larger open air funicular railway, rather than being concealed in the fabric of the building as is more normal for intra-mural inclined lifts.^[1]