Just published is "Rope & Rope Haulage" by C. E. Mountford and available from the Industrial Railway Society. Pp.229-234 contains a description of the Carmears Incline, near Ponts Mill, Par, which was rare in that it was worked by a waterwheel.
Otherwise gives general information about this route instigated by J. T. Treffry in 1837.
Simon.
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