Have been in
@rob666 territory today (in a place called
Knuzden) and stumbled across this oddity when finding somewhere to exercise the hound. These were fairly common when I was a kid - I think more where we holidayed than locally, but I thought they were all but gone now - but they are still available in East Lancashire !
There are two - one 'traditional' and one inverted. It's essentially what we'd now call a Zipline, but it's all solid engineering, running on a track, not hugely dissimilar to the Caripro rides, like Batflyer at Lightwater (below).
Anyway, the Knuzden Flyer & Knuzden Luge as we shall call them.
The Flyer
The Luge
The Flyer could certainly do with some 3 in 1 oil, but it was pretty functional and the Luge worked great. The Flyer quickly rocketed to #45 on my playground equipment list, although toppled to #375 when l landed awkwardly on the seat and suffered some gentlemanly discomfort.
It's grim up North, they say.