It stinks! Bridgnorth's unlucky Cliff Railway is now struck by leaky sewer
The Bridgnorth Cliff Railway faces yet another challenge as it battles to get back into operation.
Severn Trent Water has agreed to act after a blocked sewage pipe is threatening to hamper the tourist attraction's reopening.
The owner of the Bridgnorth attraction, which was closed in December last year over safety fears following the discovery of a damaged retaining wall, said "effluent" has been leaking into one if its stations "for months".
The funicular train service is set to reopen later this year now repairs to the damaged wall are almost finalised, but owner Malvern Tipping said a blocked sewage pipe in Low Town is causing soiled water to back up and leak into the railway's newly refurbished bottom station.
He said: "This sewer has been blocked for months, thereby causing a backlog which has constantly seeped onto the outside of the cast iron pipe and into the wooden cupboard.
