Recent content by Lord-Summerisle

From the outside the fire service or construction team will have access to "Cherry Picker" platforms which can get a person up to view from the outside. Drones may be a possibility. The Boston Dynamics "Spot" robot can be sent in with cameras - that'll either use remote control, or can be given...

The authorities launching an investigation is standard practice: especially where it looks like someone may have died.

Yes they will. There will be method statements for all of the construction elements which will set out how works will be done and what risks are foreseen and what mitigation is going to be employed to reduce those risks. There will be contractor's fire extinguishers placed around the site all...

Mainly as those systems wont have been commissioned as yet. :) For instance - if your wiring up the fire alarm system, you can't have the system live as it would be dangerous connecting and running the wiring which are live wires.o_O A sprinkler system wont be pressurised with water until all...

One thing that might account for the difference in speed - Big Dipper & Rollercoaster don't drop their full height of the lift hill. Big Dipper's first drop is only to about level with the station, it doesn't drop to ground level until the airplane turns of the 1935 redesign section. Same with...

?? only time i remember it overshooting was during the run up to christmas when the engineer was doing the morning tests and ice in the brakes meant it didn't slow down enough before the station brake, but it was before the ride opened.

I count, just as a bit of fun and a memory aid. But am not out cred hunting. While i do have a few wacky worms on the list - they where mostly ridden when doing something like a CF live back in the day, when it's just a bit of fun going en mass on the ride. The two most recent kiddie ride...

It's not so much the braking effect of the wheels on the track as coasters free wheel. The braking, on something like Big Dipper comes from the steel fin on the train passing through the brake mounted to the track. With Dipper there is a check brake as you come onto the brake run to slow the...

As others have said - the track layout, design and station building are all Grade II listed. There are fines and enforcement should the ride be removed. If PB left it SBNO, it's still Grade II, and they can be compelled to continue to maintain the building/structure, or local council can go in...

A stopped clock is right twice a day.

Am Hoping to do the same trip to Liseburg and fitting in Gröna Lund and Kolmården while we are over. Just been looking this morning and Kolmâden have put their opening dates up: they are not open weekdays in March or the 1st/2nd June. I'd been planning on Liseburg Friday & Sat, then Grona...

Totally echo the thoughts on the legacy of the CF-Lives. Having attended several in 2003/4/5/6 the memories of visiting Southport, American Adventure, Blackpool among others and 18 years on still keeping in touch with many we met through those trips

- Coaster count at start of 2022: 59 - Coaster count at end of 2022: 64 - New coasters ridden in 2022: Taiga, Pilotti, Python, Baron 1898, Vliegende Hollander, Vogel Rok, Moritz - New parks visited in 2022: 1: Efteling - Park visits (number of days) in 2022: 11 days: 8 Blackpool visits...

Blackpool's Wild Mouse and Alton Tower's Black Hole