Dreamworld's New Look Train

[JoshiYomanto]

7 hours ago, Slick said:

That’s an ambitious gradient. 

Wouldn't be the first train to rollback in the park

[themagician]

They’ve trimmed the hedge even more to reveal this element I’ve never seen before 

[Cactus_Matt]

As I seem to recall (could be wrong) they had a miniature train model go round on that little track on the hour.

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

18 hours ago, themagician said:

They’ve trimmed the hedge even more to reveal this element I’ve never seen before 

Now you're just showing your age...

7 hours ago, Cactus_Matt said:

As I seem to recall (could be wrong) they had a miniature train model go round on that little track on the hour.

You're right about what it is, although i've no idea about the frequency. I think @Slick might know more about this little piece though...

[Slick]

Can confirm there's a little train in there that used to go semi-regularly out onto that little bridge. I'm almost certain it's on a basic timer from memory. It's essentially just a little circular model train track that plugs into 240v. Was working up until Happy Halloween 2019, it was unplugged for lights and wasn't plugged back in. I think i've pointed it out once or twice before on here and usually Dreamworld are pretty good in taking feedback from here and using it to improve the park, so there's probably a good reason why it's not running again yet (probably the overgrowth).

Fun fact - neither the train or the climbing fig were opening day touches. Not sure if they're a later John Longhurst addition or not, my guess would be yes given how nuts he is about trains. I've added some photos of the station in from one of the books John's loaned me. Would love to see it return to these more traditional colours too, along with the hanging baskets etc.

[Gazza]

It would be so good for re opening if they brought back the old colour scheme.

The rest of mainstreet yeah whatever that can be the new colours....but I think there was some definite original design intent that the design of the station and the design of the main entrance building Dreamworld should complement each other.

 

Plus with a fresh new colour scheme it helps sell it as a fully refreshed attraction.

 

 

[Slick]

26 minutes ago, Gazza said:

It would be so good for re opening if they brought back the old colour scheme.

The rest of mainstreet yeah whatever that can be the new colours....but I think there was some definite original design intent that the design of the station and the design of the main entrance building Dreamworld should complement each other.

 

Plus with a fresh new colour scheme it helps sell it as a fully refreshed attraction.

 

 

Fun fact, both Central Plaza and City Hall had sky blue roofs whilst John owned Dreamworld while the train station retained a forest green roof. It was only later on that City Hall was changed to the darker forest green we know today.

Doing a quick effort Google, you can sort of make out the colour (although the low-quality print/scan make it hard to see with the yellow banding) but below you can clearly see both in the blue.

The rationale was to match those roof colours to the surrounding skyline. So since you were mostly looking up at City Hall & Central Plaza's buildings, the roofs matched the blue sky, whilst the train station was matched to the neighbouring trees since you were looking through or down at the building.

I believe they spent this much time thinking about Sky Voyager's facade too.

Edited November 7, 2021 by Slick

[Gazza]

If the DW logo was blue though what colour did that make the roof?

[Slick]

2 hours ago, Gazza said:

If the DW logo was blue though what colour did that make the roof?

That'd be the result of CMYK dot printing, hence the aforementioned yellow banding. You can learn about big dots and little dots here.

A mix of different film stocks, sunlight and John changing his mind several times during construction made figuring out the final opening day colour a bit tricky. For example, when I took a photo of one of John's books and then added a film stock look to the photo, the muted colours make it look like this.

 

But this aerial shot (scanned from that same book for John's biography) shows the colours more towards what I understand is true to life.

Edited November 8, 2021 by Slick

[Ashley Jeffery]

Baldwin officially gone.

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

9 minutes ago, Ashley Jeffery said:

Baldwin officially gone.

That's a bit premature. These are all decorative panels \ cladding and could be out for paint and panel.

There's no boiler... wheel assemblies, controls... The tender is there but thats basically just a tank, so no external cladding.

 

Dreamworld have been pretty straight about things lately - and they're VERY aware of the Steam base in their community - i doubt they'd have killed it. My guess is 12+ months outside the shed without shelter or work has hurt the finish and they're polishing it up before reopening.

[New display name]

Looks like it's heading to the maintenance shed.

[Slick]

13 minutes ago, New display name said:

Looks like it's heading to the maintenance shed.

This is my thinking also - no way to get parts from the now defunct train shed to the maintenance shed except for the road that truck’s on. Keep in mind that everything there is trim or the tender and not the boiler itself. 
 

If there’s any doubt I encourage someone to ask the park about it? 

[Ashley Jeffery]

The boiler and the locomotive frame were loaded on a different truck but was not want quick enough to get a photo

[red dragin]

Was talk of it going off to get worked on by professionals or a TAFE. Can't remember which. 

[dodge53]

Lots happening on the Station and new track earthworks today.

I noticed the old cariages on the track on the other side of steal taipan near old stage area.

[New display name]

15 hours ago, dodge53 said:

 

 

Currently this area looks awful.

Edited November 17, 2021 by New display name

[red dragin]

That flat wall could use something, such as a dot painting style taipan, or even just some directional signage. 

[Slick]

Some climbing fig to cover the wall, removing all the rock and replacing it with grass, adding in a few trees (Jacarandas would be amazing down that pathway) combined with some benches along the path would be great, dirt cheap and would elevate the space from being guest hostile and unpleasant into something people would take photos of. It'd also make that part of the train journey real pleasant in the spring.

Sidenote, I'd also widen the path where it deviates around the track and add a nice rest area between  Giant Drop & Steel Taipan's flyover. I'm thinking something like one of Australia Zoo's many rest areas. Eventually i'd pull through on Craig Davidson's plan, pull the entirety of spaghetti junction down and pop Giant Drop's queue inbetween where the train line will shape down and connect to the new path that runs along Steel Taipan's wall.

Edited November 18, 2021 by Slick

[gavinfulikes]

Little Puff has returned and has been refurbished.

photo credit to DW Golden Years

[Naazon]

It looks angry? or like mischievous?

[Park Addict 93]

23 minutes ago, gavinfulikes said:

Little Puff has returned and has been refurbished

We should have been more specific when we asked DW for the old train back 😅

[New display name]

29 minutes ago, Naazon said:

It looks angry? or like mischievous?

Just had the vax.

[themagician]

[Slick]

Closing rocky hollow station makes me sad.