Vekoma New-Gen Coasters Discussion Thread

[owenstreet7]

They do offer 2 train versions of some of the layouts. There was even rumours of Energylandia converting their SFC to run 2 trains. But that never happened.

It just seems no park so far has actually gone for the 2 train versions yet.

Dragon at Energylandia was in mind when I asked this question considering the queues were more painful for the SFC although the park barely had a queue over 20 minutes.

With Vampire at Chessington having two trains (even 3 at one point), I thought it'd be doable

Interesting to know that two is offered, although Vekoma's website always only mentions the one.

 

[Trax]

I don't really see how you could easily add a second train on the Orkanen SFC layout.
The layout has two block zones. for those of you who are unfamiliar: A block zone is a section of ride that only one train may occupy at a time. At the end of a block zone.... ahh sorry, wrong Spiel.
You only have the station (which also functions as the brakerun) + the lifthill, which don't allow for 2 train operations. Any kind of additional block brake would require layout modifications to add another block.

 

[roomraider]

I don't really see how you could easily add a second train on the Orkanen SFC layout.
The layout has two block zones. for those of you who are unfamiliar: A block zone is a section of ride that only one train may occupy at a time. At the end of a block zone.... ahh sorry, wrong Spiel.
You only have the station (which also functions as the brakerun) + the lifthill, which don't allow for 2 train operations. Any kind of additional block brake would require layout modifications to add another block.

Correct and that was exactly the plan for Energylandia, modify the layout to provide a brake run before entry into the station.

Its been a while but if I remember correctly the 2 train versions just replaces the slightly wiggly tunnel at the end of the ride with a brake run and transfer track. Nothing particularly exciting.

 

[Trax]

It's the most obvious solution to be fair. With the amount of queue-line at Energylandia, they could run it with a dual loading station and still never run out of queue.