Corkscrew (Q2997396)

  • matcher place: Staffordshire Moorlands (relation 165218), Staffordshire (relation 195444), Farley (relation 6024544)
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  • English Wikipedia categories: 1980 establishments in England, 2008 disestablishments in England, Alton Towers, Removed roller coasters, Roller coasters in the United Kingdom, Roller coasters introduced in 1980, Roller coasters manufactured by Vekoma, Roller coasters that closed in 2008, Steel roller coasters
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Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

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, engineered by Werner Stengel of German Ing.-Büro Stengel GmbH (Ingenieur Büro Stengel). The coaster was located in the Ug Land area, formerly called Talbot Centre. It was the theme park's oldest ride and is considered the greatest factor in promoting the new theme park to the British public. It was one of the first double-inverting coasters in England, and it was well received publicly in the 1980s.

Summary from Français / French Wikipedia (frwiki)

Corkscrew désignait les montagnes russes en métal du parc Alton Towers dans le Staffordshire, au Royaume-Uni ouvertes du au . Il s'agissait des montagnes russes les plus anciennes du parc et parmi les plus anciennes de Grande-Bretagne. Elles furent parmi les premières montagnes russes avec deux loopings consécutifs et les premières en Grande-Bretagne. Cependant pendant les dernières années de son fonctionnement, le manège devenait notoire pour tirer brusquement les têtes et les cous des passagers dans les fermes appui-têtes. Les passagers se plaignaient souvent de douleurs dans le cou.

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Alton Towers man_made=water_tower, building=tower, man_made=tower
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Roller coasters that closed in 2008 attraction=roller_coaster, tourism=attraction
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