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The Smiler - General Discussion

You def can't beat Nemesis, so far I have not found a ride any better for just utter enjoyment and the 'again again' feeling :)
 
somewhere in amongst the 87 pages of this post I remember seeing some concept artwork and im sure there are loads of construction pictures yet there is nothing in either section in the history part of the website. Any chance a admin could extract the pictures and add them in the history section? Cheers
 
phildenholm said:
somewhere in amongst the 87 pages of this post I remember seeing some concept artwork and im sure there are loads of construction pictures yet there is nothing in either section in the history part of the website. Any chance a admin could extract the pictures and add them in the history section? Cheers
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You can still find all of The Smiler construction photos here.

:)
 
Something I noticed yesterday at the Smiler, new yellow bars have been added along the break run, I believe these can then be slotted in along the side of the track if they need to evacuate guests. This means you won't need to wear a harness, and will make it much quicker to get people off. You can see the yellow bars and the brackets they will click in to on the side of the walkway in this photo.

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In other Smiler news, the Marmaliser and queue line TVs were all on :p
 
On the two images recently uploaded to TS Facebook, the track looks hideously rusty. Heck, it makes Nemmy's track look brand new.
 
djtruefitt said:
Something I noticed yesterday at the Smiler, new yellow bars have been added along the break run, I believe these can then be slotted in along the side of the track if they need to evacuate guests. This means you won't need to wear a harness, and will make it much quicker to get people off. You can see the yellow bars and the brackets they will click in to on the side of the walkway in this photo.

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In other Smiler news, the Marmaliser and queue line TVs were all on :p
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never going to be needed, right?
 
Well I have seen people being evacuated off the break run before, and its a very slow long process, so they may well be needed. And I suppose the quicker you get people off, the quicker the techies can start trying to fix it
 
In this country, people have to be fitted with a harness and escorted one at a time along a trecherous flat metal walkway that stretches all of thirty feet.
Meanwhile at EP, if Mir or Sat break down, they let you walk down the whole lift spiral as one big group with no safety wire and a drop of over a hundred feet just a tack width away...
 
How high is the fall from the brake run walkway? We all know the horrid outcome of falls from hight (tomb raider). I know we are senceable people, however AT have a duty of care to guests that have no concept of how to walk alone the brake run walkway without falling of it. Be it a red wristband guest or a chav idiot.
 
and not everything requires harnesses on guests for evac. I know Colossus at Thorpe only requires them if the train is more than halfway up the lift hill. Also Oblivion is different as the lift hill is steeper than most coasters. I'm pretty sure Nemesis doesn't need guests to be harness as the lift hill is well enclosed and not very steep.
 
DiogoJ42 said:
In this country, people have to be fitted with a harness and escorted one at a time along a trecherous flat metal walkway that stretches all of thirty feet.
Meanwhile at EP, if Mir or Sat break down, they let you walk down the whole lift spiral as one big group with no safety wire and a drop of over a hundred feet just a tack width away...
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Sat and Mir are reasonably secure to walk down.

Nemesis was accessible without a harness so it depends on the ride.
 
No harnesses are required on Nemesis or Air's lift walkways as there is a safety railing on both sides, you only need a harness if you are walking next to an unprotected edge.
 
DiogoJ42 said:
Harnesses: coming soon to a railway platform near you!
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You say that, but don't some tube platforms have glass walls and automatic doors at the platform edge to stop people falling on the track?

Railway platforms aren't exactly that high up anyway, you'd hit the floor before the harness caught you...
 
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Josh said:
You say that, but don't some tube platforms have glass walls and automatic doors at the platform edge to stop people falling on the track?
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The platform edge doors on the underground are more to reduce air movement, to stop the trains hitting the walls of air that slow them down. The fact they help prevent suicides & accidents is of secondary importance.
 
The train has to stop within a certain distance (not sure what it is but it's something like 30 cm) so it doesn't have to stop in exactly the same place each time. Can we get back on topic now
 
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