Monorail Refurbishment

[Hid]

Consider it remarkable!

How many different trains are on the circuit today

 

[jon81uk]

Now rip those bloody vinyls off the windows.

Goose is working on it.

 

[AT86]

Now rip those bloody vinyls off the windows.

A thought occurs about the vinyls on the windows, maybe this is common knowledge and I am just slow off the mark - but are those vinyls serving a purpose in terms of reducing the heat inside the trains?

Would removal mean the monorail wouldn’t be able to operate on hot days in the same way as the Skyride? Without the installation of air con that is.

 

[Dave]

No they just covered the horribly scratched windows they never wanted to replace.

 

[Leigh]

A thought occurs about the vinyls on the windows, maybe this is common knowledge and I am just slow off the mark - but are those vinyls serving a purpose in terms of reducing the heat inside the trains?

Would removal mean the monorail wouldn’t be able to operate on hot days in the same way as the Skyride? Without the installation of air con that is.

If that was a problem, you could use a far less vigorous plain black tint - similar to what you can put in the back windows of cars. Can still see out but it’ll help keep the heat out. Best of both worlds.

 

[flyingguitar]

Caught the monorail in, on the celebration train, its cleanliness is probably about the same as the rest, although it appears to have had new benches.



It got me thinking a bit about how they could improve the interior, I think I have a few ideas as it was all very dark:

1. Remove the window vinals, and let more light in.
2. Replace the old flurecent lights with some brighter more appealing lights (not blue white leds but some warm white leds would probably look nice)
3. Repaint the interior, currently a lot of them have dark colours for the whole interior, if they were to repaint them white(or a light colour) with accents of the colour (e.g bottom half is coloured, a coloured strip, a coloured wall etc)

I did also smell fresh paint at the towers street station.

 

[Hid]

Caught the monorail in, on the celebration train, its cleanliness is probably about the same as the rest, although it appears to have had new benches.



It got me thinking a bit about how they could improve the interior, I think I have a few ideas as it was all very dark:

1. Remove the window vinals, and let more light in.
2. Replace the old flurecent lights with some brighter more appealing lights (not blue white leds but some warm white leds would probably look nice)
3. Repaint the interior, currently a lot of them have dark colours for the whole interior, if they were to repaint them white(or a light colour) with accents of the colour (e.g bottom half is coloured, a coloured strip, a coloured wall etc)

I did also smell fresh paint at the towers street station.

Nice to see Celebration Train back in service has anyone got the different voice clips for each train because I know each is different

 

[BSwiss]

I’m far from being among the Steam Punk devotees in the thoosie world, but I think the monorail is perhaps the part of the park which could best fit the theme.

Somehow simultaneously futuristic and archaic. Essential, yet perennially in the verge of being obsolete.

 

[Spark]

Someone call Leek signs to get the insides done this time not just the outer

 

[Poisson]

The insides need to be simple, easily refreshed and easily cleaned. People will pick at internal vinyls or similar.

 

[flyingguitar]

for internals I would go for a 2 tone colour scheme like you find on most modern trains, with the top 2/3 a light white / cream / grey and the bottom 1/3 the colour of the monorail (red, blue, gold, etc) preferably darker. this achieves a few things:

The white makes the monorail feel bigger and brighter, not small and dingy
The lower colour adds some colour and uniqueness to each monorail making it less bland
The lower colour (if made from a darker colour) will hide dirt and scuffs made from shoes a lot better compared to white reducing maitanence
The white would also make it feel much more clean.

also I would remove the vinyl's on the windows (maybe rework / remove the vinyl's completely) replace the dull flurecent lights (I think) with some modern LED at a nice light temperature (could even make it reactive, going blue/green/red when passing through FV)

overall the paint scheme would be similar to this:

 

[Jb85]

So you are saying strip it to the bones and theme it around a Ryanair plane ?

 

[DiogoJ42]

for internals I would go for a 2 tone colour scheme like you find on most modern trains, with the top 2/3 a light white / cream / grey and the bottom 1/3 the colour of the monorail (red, blue, gold, etc) preferably darker. this achieves a few things:

The white makes the monorail feel bigger and brighter, not small and dingy
The lower colour adds some colour and uniqueness to each monorail making it less bland
The lower colour (if made from a darker colour) will hide dirt and scuffs made from shoes a lot better compared to white reducing maitanence
The white would also make it feel much more clean.

also I would remove the vinyl's on the windows (maybe rework / remove the vinyl's completely) replace the dull flurecent lights (I think) with some modern LED at a nice light temperature (could even make it reactive, going blue/green/red when passing through FV)

overall the paint scheme would be similar to this:

You're not wrong, just so long as they use some nice saturated colours, rather than GREY.

 

[Burner]

You're not wrong, just so long as they use some nice saturated colours, rather than GREY.

Ocean grey, or military grey?

 

[spotweld]

Ocean grey, or military grey?

Nardo grey. Ruin the whole interior.

 

[DistortAMG]

for internals I would go for a 2 tone colour scheme like you find on most modern trains, with the top 2/3 a light white / cream / grey and the bottom 1/3 the colour of the monorail (red, blue, gold, etc) preferably darker. this achieves a few things:

The white makes the monorail feel bigger and brighter, not small and dingy
The lower colour adds some colour and uniqueness to each monorail making it less bland
The lower colour (if made from a darker colour) will hide dirt and scuffs made from shoes a lot better compared to white reducing maitanence
The white would also make it feel much more clean.

also I would remove the vinyl's on the windows (maybe rework / remove the vinyl's completely) replace the dull flurecent lights (I think) with some modern LED at a nice light temperature (could even make it reactive, going blue/green/red when passing through FV)

overall the paint scheme would be similar to this:

It looks very...hospital waiting room. I can smell that picture. They may well do everything in that colour and tone; let's call it "NHS misery." Mmmm, nothing to get you more hyped as you enter Britain's most fantastical Escape. Escape from what? Life itself?

I suppose the thing that a hospital waiting room and Alton Towers seem to have in common of late, though, is big queues, long waits, misery, and despair? Which is a shame, as I LOVE Alton Towers. I just hate the way it is run as of late.

Get it signed off; dark blue and white it is for all monorail trains.

In all seriousness, you are not wrong with the colour contrasts you mention—spot on. Just something a little happier and less clinical would be nicer, though, do you not think?

 

[Poisson]

Pale colours are also asking to be written all over. Darker ones looks better when you've had to remove vandalism off them.

 

[SuperMuscleMan]

Make it all Bright yellow and black then Line the inside with thin chicken wire 2" from the walls so they cant get pens on the walls and say it's smiler q themed.

 

[flyingguitar]

In all seriousness, you are not wrong with the colour contrasts you mention—spot on. Just something a little happier and less clinical would be nicer, though, do you not think?

I do agree it seems quite clinical, it was the best image I could find showing the example, this is used quite often in transit, even disney uses it on their monorail: