Corkscrew

Corkscrew was a roller coaster located at Alton Towers between April 4th 1980 and November 9th 2008. It opened as the first double inverting roller coaster in the UK (although that's a bit of a cheeky claim, considering Irn Bru Revolution in Blackpool had technically been inverting riders twice per ride since 1979).

History

Corkscrew was purchased by Alton Towers from Ikea, as a flat packed roller coaster (it was designed by two stoned Dutch engineering students (later to be known as Vekoma). The instructions stated that assembly should have taken approximately 45 minutes but ended up taking about 6 months, as Towers staff stuggled to understand the Swedish instructions.