Monorail Refurbishment

[Mi-Nigle]

I can't find a photo with quite the right angle, but isn't it a sheer drop to the ground between the platform and the track? I can't remember.

 

[Matt.GC]

The volumes of people on the platforms and where they stand within organised batching areas is heavily supervised. That makes it far safer than the crowds that normally huddle near the platform entrance of most stations during busy times, many of which are completely unmanned. Any risk is likely far lower than at a normal train station. The safety record of the Monorail, having had tens of millions of guests over many decades pass through it, proves that.

Even as recent as the 80's, British Rail operated older coaching stock that didn't even have central locking on the train doors. Trains would pull into stations, and many passengers would swing the doors open and start embarking before the train had even stopped!

The Monorail is not risk free however, and we know that Merlin are extremely conscious of safety. It's on their property and they've decided it's not worth the risk. It's likely that they have policies, and are probably insured to that effect, that guests cannot be waiting on platforms for attractions without air gates.

They could massively enhance guest experience by installing air gates, or even some form of cheaper manually operated system, but the fact remains that they choose not to. They don't think it's important enough. That's the meat of the matter.

 

[spinba11]

my point was that at alton there are going to be much more children (and much less commuters) so there is more of an oppotunity for it to happen, in addition most train stations have wide platforms with cafes people can sit in to wait for a train, they aren't in a pen witing close to the tran.

You also don’t get the Friday/Saturday night drunks at towers