Colossus (Thorpe Park)

Train in the Heartline Roll

Colossus at Thorpe Park ( Chertsey, Surrey, UK) is a steel roller coaster model from the manufacturer Intamin Looping Coaster, which opened as the first roller coaster with ten inversions on 22 March 2002.

Together with the identical plant opened in 2006, 10 Inversion Roller Coaster (Chinese:十 环 过山车), in Chimelong Paradise in the People's Republic of China, it was so that the roller coaster with the most rollovers world. In May 2013, the record by The Smiler at Alton Towers ( Alton, Staffordshire, UK) was replaced, which has 14 inversions.

The inversions

The passengers by driving on the 850 m long track initially a loop followed by a Cobra Roll, which consists of two inversions, a double corkscrew, a quadruple (quad ) Heartline Roll and, after a left turn, a further Heartline Roll in the opposite direction as the previous four rollers.

The trains of Colossus each have seven cars. In each car four people can (two rows of two people) take place. As restraint system come shoulder strap for use.

Photos

Train in the Heartline Roll

Train in the loop