Skyride Alton Towers (POV) England UK

The Skyride is a cable car system which visitors can use to travel between Towers Street, Forbidden Valley, and Cloud Cuckoo Land.In this video mesmo goes from Forbidden Valley over the Dark Forest into Cloud Cuckoo Land.
The Skyride has operated since 1987 and replaced an earlier chairlift, which had opened in 1963. The central station in Forbidden Valley was burned on the evening of 28 October 2007, due to a faulty halogen lamp. The incident caused a power cut, which led to some guests being stranded on the park's monorail. Luckily, this incident was reported quickly by a Towers employee as to not cause as much massive damage, and the park says that the damage caused to the station was mainly cosmetic. The Skyride re-opened 19 April 2008 after major work had been carried out on the station's roof. At the end of 2008 season the original Skyride gondolas were replaced with smaller and more colourful gondolas.
At approximately 22:30 on 21 July 2009, a fire broke out in the Cloud Cuckoo Land station. It remained closed for the rest of the 2009 season and has re-opened since.
FactFile

Opened - 1987
Refurbished - 2009
Manufacturer - Poma
Civil Egineering - Sir Robert McAlpine
Length - 1048 Metres
Capacity per Gondola - 10
Duration - 5 minutes (approx)
Max Height - 200ft (61m)
Top speed - 4metres/second
Average Speed - 2.8m/s
Station Speed - 0.35m/s

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Forbidden Valley
• poma
• skyride
• alton
• towers
• cable
• car
• ski
• lift
• multi
• coloured

[bethissoawsomelike]

Once me and my dad were stuck on the skyride for about 20 minutes with spanish people getting more and more irritated. -___-

[SuperLyria]

i hate the skyrider!!!

It really scares me !

at one point it just stopped when we were on then it just bounced to the other end !

We were getting pulled of our seats !

[MrLiamfoster21]

Why do they have to an alarm every time it stops?

[Forbidaxe]

12 Years since I been alton towers and have always wondered if they can be outran.

[kjt290798]

i went to alton towers with my school and me and my friends went on this and it broke down. this girls who was in it with us said ' do you know if we fell we would just roll down that hill' and then it started to tip to 1 side :L

[emistudioss]

When I was on this it stopped dead centre for like 5 minutes, and the wind kept blowing it so it was shaking side to side. It was horrible, me and my 4 friends managed to freak 2 adults out though with our panicing. Hahaha

[lolocopta1]

i went on shakey shakey

[serenityforest]

That feels weird.. That feels weird! Haha.

[spillthedavids]

Lol my friends mum shit herself on this, yet she go on all of the rollercoasters.

[jakepe55]

I LOVE THE SKY RIDE :)