Qualla: Aeron Express https://qualla.com/aeron-express en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:13 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Aeron Express https://qualla.com/aeron-express Aeron Express: Introduction https://qualla.com/aeron-express/ The cable still runs across the harbour mouth in the minds of everyone over fifty in Aberaeron. Reinforced concrete footings sit on both quays, on Quay Parade and on Lon Yr Hafen, exactly opposite each other across about thirty metres of tidal water. The carriage that used to swing between them, suspended from a single steel cable, hand-cranked by an operator turning a wheel at each end, has not run in thirty years. Periodically a councillor proposes to bring it back. Periodically a feasibility study is commissioned. Periodically the regulations look impossible. The Aeron Express is the kind of small lost machine that a town does not get over.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/c/aeron-express-wp/gckc-aeron-express-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Aeron Express: Captain Evans and the Flood of 1885 https://qualla.com/aeron-express/ The original Aeron Express was a piece of practical Victorian engineering. A flood in the mid-1880s carried away the road bridge that crossed the River Aeron at the harbour mouth, separating the two halves of the town for everyday foot traffic. The labourers needed to cross. Capt...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/c/aeron-express-wp/gckc-aeron-express-bob-griffins-revival.mp3 0:06 3 full Aeron Express: Tourists, Yachts, and Misunderstandings https://qualla.com/aeron-express/ Visitors made every kind of assumption. Many were convinced the carriage was actually driven by a concealed electric motor, refusing to believe a grown adult could hand-crank a four-passenger cable car across a harbour. Others asked where the ferry went, as though the obvious des...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/c/aeron-express-wp/gckc-aeron-express-tourists-yachts-and-misunderstandings.mp3 0:06 4 full Aeron Express: The 1994 Closure and the Long Afterlife https://qualla.com/aeron-express/ By the end of summer 1994, health and safety regulations had caught up with the machine. Hand-cranked aerial cable cars carrying paying passengers were now subject to a regulatory framework written for industrial cable systems. The Aeron Express did not meet it. The carriage came...

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