Ride Downtime 2014

[definedancing]

It's a whole back lol but we went on the second day of the season, and The Smiler, Rita, RMT, Air, Skyride, Th13teen and Duel (whilst we were on it) were all down for 5 minutes or more whilst we were waiting. It was forgivable because the park was dead but even so.

[Sr88]

I'm beginning to think that maybe RCT3's breakdown frequency is quite realistic!

[Rockstar]

N:st Down Along With The Rapids And Flume

[Dan]

N:st Down Along With The Rapids And Flume

Those three don't open til 11 o'clock

[razgriz33]

Smiler down according to ridetimes. Any ideas why?

[Sr88]

Wow! It about a 100 minute queue as well :O

[Kirsty25]

Well this week so far...
Skyride been closed since an issue in sunday for essential maintenance, workmen in FV station on monday. Nemesis had around 20 mins down yesterday and Rita has just come back up after a period of down time.

[Aidan Lowe]

Went today, pretty ok day but had its fair shame of downtime.

Nemesis was going around pre-10am but was closed for an hour half roughly until about 11:30, the guys said sick spillage but it don't take that long. Oblivion had some downtime causing 90 minute queues, smiler was popular as ever and had its ~15 minute breakdown spells on numerous occasions.

[Kirsty25]

Skyride is apparently going to be down for upto 2 weeks according to someone I was speaking to.

[Sr88]

Not surprised. It's the most unreliable ropeway in existence. If that were in a ski resort they would have to shut the resort 30% of the time. Honestly, I don't get how it is so bad.

[Danny]

'The Skyride is closed for maintenance and spring cleaning till Saturday 21st June.'

Quote taken from AT website

[Kirsty25]

'The Skyride is closed for maintenance and spring cleaning till Saturday 21st June.'

Quote taken from AT website

That's interesting as that isn't what staff were saying. There was an incident on Sunday that lead to its closure.

[peter150496]

Smiler was down for 15 minutes, not sure what the reason was, no cars were in track but both lift hills had their fin brakes up, don't know if that means anything?

[Dr.Kelham]

Smiler was down for 15 minutes, not sure what the reason was, no cars were in track but both lift hills had their fin brakes up, don't know if that means anything?

The fins on the smiler are supposed to be up they go down when the train goes over them - if it was only 15 minutes could have potentially been something needing a cleanup (only a guess)

[peter150496]

Air lane 2 closed for 10 minutes due to two people being sick and one of them throwing up on a member of staff [emoji23]

[peter150496]

The smiler closed for 25 minutes due to a code 0 ( stuck on vertical lift hill I think)

[Aidan Lowe]

Ripsaw wasn't functioning today. Maintenance guys had it going around very slowly, not sure what the issue was.

[roy h]

after spending the weekend there. saturday go evacuated of rita due to the fire alarm going off just as the lights were changing. then in the after noon saw spinball stuck at the top of the ramp close to the confrence center with people being took off. it was running again half hour later so not to bad. then today just the rapids were not running due to the rain on the saturday.

[Master_feedback]

Saturday also saw smiler and 13 brake down rita got closed for the day at about 4pm with them not able to stop the fire alarm going off .... also oblivian and smiler were closed for about 20 mins due to an electrical storm and our Ert on air was delayed due to it braking down with a full train of tt's finest on it .....

[Capt.Barnacles]

after spending the weekend there. saturday go evacuated of rita due to the fire alarm going off just as the lights were changing. then in the after noon saw spinball stuck at the top of the ramp close to the confrence center with people being took off. it was running again half hour later so not to bad. then today just the rapids were not running due to the rain on the saturday.

Rapids were down yesterday because of scheduled maintenance.