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Yes I mean at Towers. Although the overall gate figure is lower in general, I was thinking about whether specific rides have been affected in different ways. For example, if visitors viewed Oblivion as more dangerous than Nemesis, and as such Oblivion's ride numbers would go down more than those...

Has anyone who has been since the incident noticed any changes to the popularity of specific other rides? By which I mean has it had a different effects on different rides in terms of their popularity? I can't really think of a ride that would be perceived as very similar to the Smiler though...

I went to Camelot lots when I was younger, it's sad and strange to see the images of what it looks like now. Knightmare wasn't there on my last visit to Camelot, but it sounds like a good ride. Was it a last ditch attempt to save the park? As people have said there were rumours about it...

I'm a bit surprised that Spinball is considered likely to go relatively soon. I think it's a good ride - in places it feels pretty intense for a rollercoaster that isn't one of the big ones. What are the reasons why it might be changed/removed? It's not particularly old compared to some.

Thanks for your replies - it's a shame it's like that, but obviously with good reason.

A couple of questions... Is Oblivion and the rest of X Sector open again now? (Without the Smiler). What is the situation with the Smiler itself - is it the same as before but closed? Or have they covered it in some way/are there people working on/investigating it?

Glad Joe is dealing with it so well and that he's recovering. Odd that Philip Schofield said "you were on a roller coaster so you'd shut your eyes" as though that was a fact. Surely people mostly keep their eyes open on roller coasters, I certainly do.

I am also impressed with how Joe and the other people involved are dealing with it. I hope they make recoveries that are as full and quick as possible. I was pleased to read that they didn't know about the stalled train until the last moments - knowing about it would probably have made the...

I would paint the air tunnel the colour of the track.

@delta79 Thanks, that's good point.

Are there any images of the damaged carriage once the people were evacuated? What was the pattern of damage - was it uniform across the whole of the front area or were certain areas weaker?

What is ERT?

I am confused by the lawyers saying that one of the injured is in a critical condition. That would suggest she is in danger, and I think would be much worse than 'life changing', or even 'serious'. It would indicate that she has got worse since she went into hospital. I hope that this isn't the...

Would the people on the full carriage have been able to see the valleyed car from the lift hill? I'm hoping they didn't know it was there until the last moment. It's possible that a Smiler novice might assume the car was in a place it was supposed to be, rather than in the way (given that the...

That's an impressive finding! It was obviously something that they would have been aware of as a possibility then.

Has it happened before that a car gets stuck part way round? What is the procedure for getting it off the track? (I think someone earlier in the thread said it's lifted off?)

Wow, it's shocking to think of this in the context of Nemesis - if it had happened there instead.

Thanks for the replies concerning the length of the rescue, it must have been horrible for the people who were waiting to be freed.

Does anyone know why it took so long to get the people out of the carriage? Did they have to cut through the restraints? Like everyone else I was very shocked this could happen - the theory someone mentioned a few pages back seemed feasible, that they were trying to take the populated carriage...