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| Corkscrew | |
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| Alton Towers | |
| Location | Alton Towers |
| Park section | UG Land |
| Coordinates | 52°59′05″N 1°53′25″W / 52.9847°N 1.8904°W |
| Status | Closed |
| Opening date | 4 April 1980 |
| Closing date | 9 November 2008 |
| Cost | £1,250,000[1] |
| Replaced by | TH13TEEN |
| General statistics | |
| Type | Steel |
| Manufacturer | Vekoma |
| Designer | Werner Stengel |
| Model | Corkscrew with Bayerncurve |
| Track layout | custom |
| Lift/launch system | Chain lift hill |
| Height | 23 m (75 ft) |
| Drop | 21 m (68.9 ft) |
| Length | 731 m (2,398 ft) |
| Speed | 64.3 km/h (40.0 mph) |
| Inversions | 2 |
| Duration | 1:15 |
| Capacity | 1,400[2] riders per hour |
| Height restriction | 47.3 in (120 cm) |
| Trains | 2 trains with 6 cars. Riders are arranged 2 across in 2 rows for a total of 24 riders per train. |
| Total mass | 350 metric tons (340 long tons; 390 short tons)[3] |
| Built base area | 95 m × 50 m (312 ft × 164 ft)[3] |
| Corkscrew at RCDB | |
Corkscrew was a steel roller coaster located at Alton Towers theme park, near Alton in the English shire county of Staffordshire, United Kingdom. Corkscrew was manufactured for Alton Towers by Dutch company Vekoma,[2][3] engineered by Werner Stengel of German Ing.-Büro Stengel GmbH (Ingenieur Büro Stengel).[4] The coaster was located in the Ug Land area, formerly called Talbot Centre.[2] It was the theme park's oldest ride and considered one of the greatest factors in promoting the new theme park to the British public. It was the first double-inverting coaster in the UK and Europe,[1] and was well received publicly in the 1980s.[5]
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- ^ a b c "Corkscrew - The first roller coaster in Alton Towers Resort". www.AltonTowers.com. Alton Towers Resort Operations Limited (ATROL). 3 April 2020. Retrieved 21 December 2021.
- ^ a b c Martin Valt (22 March 2010). Corkscrew - Alton Towers - specifications. RCDB.com (photograph). Alton Towers, Staffordshire: Roller Coaster DataBase. Retrieved 21 December 2021.
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