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The QuadStar Aerial Roundabout Ride – Part Two – Creating the Centre Column
November 9, 2016 8:25 am Leave your thoughtsAt the heart of the QuadStar ride is an incredibly well engineered centre column. When completed it will weigh over seven […]
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Featured in FunWorld and InterPark
November 2, 2016 11:22 am Leave your thoughtsAt the launch of our new Dark Ride System – The QuadTrack at EAS in Barcelona, we had lots of press […]
We’re sponsoring the Vision XS Conference
November 2, 2016 10:22 am Leave your thoughtsOur friends at Vision XS are running their 13th Conference on December 7th and 8th, 2016 at Wallingford Sports Park. What makes […]
The QuadStar Aerial Roundabout Ride – Part One – Preview
October 19, 2016 12:28 pm Leave your thoughtsWith all the focus being on the creation and launch of the QuadTrack Tracked Dark Ride system for Santa Park […]
The Ilkeston Firm that makes roller coasters – Nottingham Post
October 19, 2016 9:26 am Leave your thoughtsWe have had some lovely coverage recently in the Nottingham Post. Dan Robinson, the Business Correspondent wrote a long article […]
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 […]
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 […]