Roller Coaster (Great Yarmouth Pleasure Beach)

The Roller Coaster, also known as the Scenic or Scenic Railway Roller Coaster (german roller coaster ), a wooden roller coaster type Scenic Railway in Great Yarmouth Pleasure Beach in Great Yarmouth. The railway was built there in 1932 and has since been in operation. He is one of the last eight Scenic Railways in the world and the last in the UK. A special feature is the co-moving " brakeman ", which, with a brake located on the train at any time can reduce the speed shop assembled on the track brakes. The track is also the second highest and second fastest wooden roller coaster in the UK.

The railway

The structure of the web consists of fir and pine wood and is completely covered with painted metal plates. The track is also made of wood and has in the valleys escape routes on both sides. Although the web is often referred to as side- friction roller coaster, there are no side -friction wheels. Instead, the wheels are flanged as with a railroad, whereby the fitting between the first two cars brakeman 's job to keep the rate low enough so as not to leave the train in curves jump out of the bills.

The train has two big runs, one of which passes the first by supporting another route section.

History

The web was originally from the German Erich Heidrich, who had already built the Montaña Suiza in the Basque Donostia -San Sebastián, built as a major attraction of the Paris Colonial Exhibition in 1929 and operated by the showman Hugo Hans. After visiting the exhibition was purchased by the owner of the Pleasure Beach in Great Yarmouth, Pat Collins, the web, and then let them decompose Wadbrook and bring to England with Harry and Edward. There they were built after the arrival of parts in February 1932 by a group of German workers on the Pleasure Beach again, so that she could open for visitors in April 1932.

Like the other Scenic Railways that time, the roller coaster had a thematization of plaster mountains on the sides of the wooden structure, and other design elements such as artificial locks.

Initially, the web had five wooden trains which have been replaced in the 1960s with new glass fibers that are used today. In the late 1960s, the theming was renewed and the old plaster replaced by painted with a mountain landscape metal plates. Later, the Roller Coaster was another theme times since new and runs over a light blue structure with a blue-red- white stars band at the height of the track.

Pat Collins brother John built 1938, a copy of the web which opened in 1940 in his Barry Iceland Pleasure Park, where it was destroyed in 1973 by a storm.