Ride Availability/Operations 2022-24

[Poisson]

Good point!



(do that many really travel down from Scotland?)

They don't have a major park and there's a choice of 3 sensible major parks for them, being BPB, Mingo and Towers.

Towers even in this state is easily superior.

 

[Mick]

It’s bizarre, I was there on the Friday before Scarefest started and as an example Thirteen was on 3 trains, Oblivion was on both stations so why would it be that the offering is better on a quiet day than in their flagship event?

 

[Mattie boy]

To enhance sales via fastrack

Meanwhile this morning nemesis has opened on one train

 

[Blackhole_Sun]

Wickerman is back open

I think nemesis was on one train yesterday looking at the queue times. It was down to one train early on Tuesday as well. Almost unheard of.

 

[Ethan]

Wickerman is back open

I think nemesis was on one train yesterday looking at the queue times. It was down to one train early on Tuesday as well. Almost unheard of.

How many is Nemmy on today

 

[StajBeetle]

One.

 

[Mattie boy]

Train 2 is not in use. I've just been on train 1, good rattle on row 7

 

[Weby72]

Train 2 is not in use. I've just been on train 1, good rattle on row 7

FFS

 

[Weby72]

Smiler goes down just as we're about to enter the building.

As our girls said, "this happens to us every time"

We're cursed.

 

[Adthoms]

This is probably a naive question so apologies if I'm completely misunderstanding park operations here, but are there basically a set number of engineers on site each day that primarily wait to respond to ride breakdowns and hand them back over to the ride ops teams once the fault is resolved?

 

[Weby72]

Has anyone heard anything about why 13 is still down (not opened all day )

 

[Ethan]

This is probably a naive question so apologies if I'm completely misunderstanding park operations here, but are there basically a set number of engineers on site each day that primarily wait to respond to ride breakdowns and hand them back over to the ride ops teams once the fault is resolved?

I don’t know but I assume you’re correct because it can sometimes take engineers ages to get over to a ride

 

[Weby72]

13 opened... queue went right up to 60 mins in double quick time.

Just before that, Nemmy went down - and has been closed since.

There hasn't been one minute today when all the thrill rides have been open.

 

[Dave]

This is probably a naive question so apologies if I'm completely misunderstanding park operations here, but are there basically a set number of engineers on site each day that primarily wait to respond to ride breakdowns and hand them back over to the ride ops teams once the fault is resolved?

There used to be two shifts (early and late), early shift started around 6am and late shift finishes at 10pm. The they do standard maintenance before and after park close and respond to breakdowns whilst it is open.

At least that’s how it was a few years ago.

During closed season some ride staff are given winter contracts to help the maintenance teams (nothing technical just helping shift and lift and support).

 

[Adthoms]

There used to be two shifts (early and late), early shift started around 6am and late shift finishes at 10pm. The they do standard maintenance before and after park close and respond to breakdowns whilst it is open.

At least that’s how it was a few years ago.

During closed season some ride staff are given winter contracts to help the maintenance teams (nothing technical just helping shift and lift and support).

Thanks, really insightful!

 

[badaz52]

Not great today, rides going down and staying down for extended periods. Hex broke again.

 

[Dobba]

Got on everything bar Spinball and Rita, which seemed to time their downtime to when we were within walking distance of them. Nemesis was on one train until sometime in mid-afternoon, by 7:30pm it was on two and they were flying out of the station. Hex reopened just as we gave up on Rita, so time was on our side on that one.

 

[Jemmo]

We managed to get on everything yesterday, just. We’d queued about an hour for Rita and it broke down so hung around a bit before moving on; managed to get back on it about 8:50pm.

I think we got lucky though taking to people in various queues who seemed to have been cursed to have rides close while they’d been in the queue. We’d also been there 9:30am to 9pm which helped

 

[MAC]

Not great today, rides going down and staying down for extended periods. Hex broke again.

Yesterday was terrible, really poor operations. i will avoid scarefest in future, not worth it

 

[Tom]

They seem to be running on fumes now after a year of cuts and stubbornness with engineering/technical resource (i.e. not bolstering it). End of the season still feels like a long way to stagger through to.