Scenic Railway

[rappa]

Recently I've become somewhat intrigued with the Scenic Railway in Melbourne. I was just wondering if any of you have any links or whatever to some more detailed info. on it? I'm most interested in things like how the lift works on this ride and exactly what is the GO with the brakeman. IE what does he actually do and how all that works. ...I really love the technology on all these old rides :-)

[Daniel]

INTRIGUED, ACTUALLY

[rappa]

See what happens when you're in a hurry! Twice in as many minutes my friend! Good thing we have you here cleaning up the filth that some of us try to pass off as the english language! "YOUR fingers are TOO fat. To obtain a special dialling wand...mash the keypad now"

[Daniel]

Someone's got to do it old son. By the way, YOU'RE and HERE you illiterate person you. :twisted:

[Flea]

h3y man i l0v3 t3h scanic railwey it is su fon meybeh u shuld go ride it plz!!! Have fun Dan ~L30hm

[Daniel]

Hey Liam, do you like sex and travel?

[joz]

Six posts into it, and no ones answered the original question, and everyone has instead, been getting wound up about miss-spellings. All we need now is for Richard to rename himself Jeff and we'll feel like we're really at Coasterbuzz.

[rappa]

LOL good one joz! And hey, now its 7 posts in... However I would greatly appreciate the initial post answered if anyone does have any info.

[HussRainbow]

ok lol ill answer it, well as far as i know, its just a normal chain lift...... but im not 100% and with the breakman, they break the train on certain parts, so that the train doesn't fly off the tracks, id never do it, it's a very dangerous job to do!

[Auscoaster]

ok lol ill answer it,   well as far as i know, its just a normal chain lift...... but im not 100% and with the breakman, they break the train on certain parts, so that the train doesn't fly off the tracks, id never do it, it's a very dangerous job to do!

It's not a normal chain, it's like a metal wire. Similiar one that comes to mind is the lift on Millennium Force, though not as quick, it doesn't take long to get to the top of Scenic Railway.

[DisneyDoll]

Yes it is a metal wire, not only that but the ride operator that stands in the centre of the train uses his control lever to grab onto it....This same lever also controls the brakes.

[HussRainbow]

yeah i noticed that the other day it is a cable, quite interesting for the ride, i like the plate on the table thing built in 1912