Alton Towers Map Collection

[Stuknow89]

Hi,
Wondering if anyone can help? I’m a collector of park maps, particularly Alton towers and Thorpe park.
Does anyone know if Alton towers produced physical papers maps for every year or was there a year or years missing? Especially Covid times! It which case I can stop searching, google AI says there was one every year, but I sort of remember a post of Facebook a few years ago says they are reintroducing them, or did I dream that? lol, any help would be great. TIA

 

[Squiggs]

AI is incorrect. They did stop producing them during Covid. So you'll be missing 2021-2023. They were reintroduced with Nemesis Reborn in 2024.

Also worth noting, that there is a physical 2020 map, which was not used on park, and shows The World of David Walliams, before the area was moved to a 2021 opening. When the 2020 season got underway they basically reverted to the previous year's design.

But other than this there is at least one map per year from 1980 onwards, and in the years before that in the guidebooks.

 

[Thameslink Rail]

While I remember, I've noticed the TS atlas is getting a bit out of date, have we got maps from 2023-25 that we can scan in?

 

[Squiggs]

While I remember, I've noticed the TS atlas is getting a bit out of date, have we got maps from 2023-25 that we can scan in?

I do, yes.

Funnily enough I clocked that very issue earlier in the week, but it hadn't quite got to the top of my to-do list yet, as I've been doing some other site upgrades.

I've also just invested in a new scanner, so at some point I might see if any of the older maps could do with an update.