Restoration
The FIPT is committed to the full restoration of the lift to working order. We are working with the Foxton Locks Partnership to achieve this Aim.
When the Lift closed and was scrapped in 1928 the site was robbed of all useful material and abandoned to nature. In 1980, when the Trust was formed, things began to change. We cleared a lot of the site and started to make paths so that the public could 
explore the site safely. This continued with the help of Waterways Recovery Group, particularly the Essex Branch.
Meanwhile, FIPT set to work on the old boiler house which now operates as the Trust's Museum, reconstructing it from the ground up using photographs of the original building as reference.
The top half of the Inclined Plane was cleared of trees over several years and maintained by FIPT. It has now been cleared right to the bottom.
The biggest step forward was the completion of the £3m lottery project in 2008
Restoration - With the help of various organisations, the FLP and the Lottery Heritage Fund, £3m worth of work has been completed transforming the site of the lift from an overgrown 'wood' to a properly interpreted monument to the ingenuity of the the victorian engineer Gordon Cale Thomas.
We are now moving forward with plans for full restoration!