‘A Switchback Railway is an 1898 British short black-and-white silent actuality film, directed by Robert W. Paul, featuring patrons riding on a switchback railway at a fairground.’
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This capsule was curated by Clinton Montague
I love the smokers, puffing away whilst riding!
There also seems to be a total lack of any kind of safety devices. You have to wonder how many people may have fallen off that thing.
This is from a couple of years earlier (1896). The Railway starts at 35seconds in
http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=51928