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| Rogue |
Skyride FireSeems like Alton Towers are not having much luck with the Skyride, this time the fire broke out at Cloud Cuckoo Landhttp://www.uttoxeteradvertiser.co...iser/displayarticle.asp?id=435248 |
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| Boozytwin1 |
The station is pretty much gone... The Skyride won't be open again this season...!
Its a good job the ride was not operating at the time. Imagine being on board heading towards a station on fire...! Its a long way down...! |
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| Auntie Murial |
Im going to start too take spare underwear with me too parks just in case |
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| Rogue |
Now that's a scary prospect! |
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| Magic |
Be a far more exciting ride than, Air, Rita, Spinball, S.H.I.T, Oblivion, Enterprise, Mine Train, Dual, Blade, etc etc etc.
Do we know how the last fire started, could this latest one be the same cause? |
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| stealth fan |
http://www.uttoxeteradvertiser.co...ser/displayarticle.asp?id=435919.
That should answer your question. |
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| Boozytwin1 |
Surely all the electrics would of been switched off by 10.30 at night...! | ||
| frosty |
Could have been anything - lights, security alarms, etc. Many parks seem to have wiring that looks a bit of a mess, mostly around the station area rather than on the rides, but I would imagine it's mainly low voltage stuff rather than 3-phase 
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| nemesis scribe |
Grrrrrrr what all this does mean is without the cable cars, Alton becomes a walk-a-thon 
Get your hiking boots out . . . |
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| coaster-andy |
That was my thought when it happened again. A very long walk as well between the rides. O well it was a good ride in the park now we will have to wait again for sky ride 2. |
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| bradpeet |
Now if they had kept the miniature railway...... | ||
| Nemesis Nick |
Had that happened, they'd surely have stopped the ride and reversed it to run it in the opposite direction, so that the people in the affected cars could get off where they got on. The Skyride is really two rides in an L-shape. You go from one station (can't remember what it's called), then to a half way station (not far from Ripsaw and Nemesis) where I think you have to get off and if you want to continue, on another car to continue to the station at the other end in Cred Street. Which of the three stations is Cloud Cuckoo Land which was burned? When I rode it during Loopathon AT 2005 and 2006, I didn't pay much attention to what the three stations were called. |
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| bluea61 |
Although this would put the people who hadn't long got on going back towards the fire! 
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