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Driving to the Arctic Circle – A theme park ride in construction – Part 8
October 5, 2016 8:53 am Leave your thoughtsAfter the Launch of the Santa Park Sleigh Ride at the European Attractions Show in Barcelona, the final hard yards […]
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The big unveiling – A theme park ride in construction – Part 7
September 21, 2016 9:56 am Leave your thoughtsToday at the European Attractions Show (EAS) in Barcelona, we unveiled the completed sleigh and can now reveal that the […]
We’re off to EAS Barcelona
September 14, 2016 1:19 pm Leave your thoughtsAll the planning is complete, the cases are packed and the new dark ride is boxed and ready. We are […]
Access to control boards and more – A theme park ride in construction – Part 6
August 24, 2016 11:47 am Leave your thoughtsIn the last post, we talked a lot about the little engineering details that we focus on. Well in this […]
Getting down to details – A theme park ride in construction – Part 5
August 11, 2016 12:58 pm Leave your thoughtsWe are now at a stage where it is all about the details. Lots of little individual parts and sub-assemblies […]
Track completion and assembly – A theme park ride in construction – Part 4
August 3, 2016 3:23 pm Leave your thoughtsAnother week and another huge amount of progress with the track now completed and ready to fit. There’s 147m of […]
Sub assemblies and control panels – A theme park ride in construction – Part 3
July 27, 2016 9:33 am Leave your thoughtsA lot happens in a week and the construction is at full pace. We are getting ready for the launch […]
Creating the passenger compartment – A theme park ride in construction – Part 2
July 19, 2016 1:38 pm Leave your thoughtsThings are moving very fast here with the chassis now all completed and ready to be sprayed, it’s onto the […]
A brand new theme park ride in construction – Part 1
July 14, 2016 11:06 am Leave your thoughtsWe don’t often show this stage of construction on theme park rides, but this one is an interesting one for […]
The LCC1 Tram leaves Garmendale
July 6, 2016 2:53 pm Leave your thoughtsFive weeks to the day after it arrived, it’s gone again. The beautiful (and now beautifully mechanically restored) LCC1 Bluebird […]
The John Fowler BB1 (Tiger) Ploughing Engine at Speed
June 29, 2016 10:26 am Leave your thoughtsThis video has proven so popular on our Facebook page here that we thought we would share it here. It’s our […]
Tram refurbishment – Chassis paint and primer completed and an open day
June 15, 2016 11:34 am Leave your thoughtsThe team have had a very busy week working on the London County Council Tram from Crich Tramway Village and […]
Tram refurbishment continued – Completing the shot blast process
June 8, 2016 12:31 pm Leave your thoughtsThe refurbishment work on the London County Council LCC1 tram from Crich Tramway Village continues with the completion of the […]
Drive Plate remanufacture – The Black Buccaneer at Chessington World of Adventures
June 3, 2016 5:00 am Leave your thoughtsThe Black Buccaneer at Chessington World of Adventures is another of our theme park ride refurbishment projects that’s just been completed. […]
Tram refurbishment – LCC1 Being prepared for shotblasting – Crich Tramway Village
June 1, 2016 12:00 pm Leave your thoughtsIn our recent post here, we welcomed the London County Council Tram number One from Crich Tramway Village into our […]
Bubbleworks refurbishment – Chessington World of Adventures
May 25, 2016 11:09 am Leave your thoughtsBubbleworks was originally opened in 1990 and built by Mack Rides. It’s a six minute dark ride that was designed […]
We’re Proud to welcome LCC1 into our workshop
May 18, 2016 12:18 pm Leave your thoughtsAll the way from the very local and brilliant Crich Tramway Village, we are delighted to welcome London County Council […]
Our new gigantic spraybooth
May 5, 2016 1:31 pm Leave your thoughtsAs part of our ongoing expansion and desire to offer more services to a higher standard, we are in the […]