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Access to control boards and more – A theme park ride in construction – Part 6

In the last post, we talked a lot about the little engineering details that we focus on. Well in this weeks instalment, we have a beautiful example of this in...

Getting down to details – A theme park ride in construction – Part 5

We are now at a stage where it is all about the details. Lots of little individual parts and sub-assemblies being finalised and coming together, ready for the final assembly...

Track completion and assembly – A theme park ride in construction – Part 4

Another week and another huge amount of progress with the track now completed and ready to fit. There's 147m of it altogether and it works just like a massive Scalextric...

Creating the passenger compartment – A theme park ride in construction – Part 2

Things are moving very fast here with the chassis now all completed and ready to be sprayed, it's onto the GRP body for the passenger compartment. However much you draw...

A brand new theme park ride in construction – Part 1

We don't often show this stage of construction on theme park rides, but this one is an interesting one for us, so we thought we would share it early and...

The LCC1 Tram leaves Garmendale

Five weeks to the day after it arrived, it’s gone again. The beautiful (and now beautifully mechanically restored) LCC1 Bluebird tram has left the Garmendale Works to return to Crich...

Tram refurbishment – Chassis paint and primer completed and an open day

The LCC1 tram in red oxide primer with the team working to finalise it The team have had a very busy week working on the London County Council Tram from...

The running of the Snowdon Mountain Railway – the moment of truth!

Following the excitement and delivery of the new Coaches for Snowdon Mountain Railway... The moment of truth! As passengers lined up at LLanberis Station, a hustle and bustle of excitement...

Garmendale deliver again… Snowdon coaches leave Dale Works

Snowdon Mountain Railway Coaches Following the award of their first £1, million pound order back in March 2011,  Coach 16 and 17 left Dale Works bound, for Snowdon. It will...