Researching Great Yarmouth Pleasure beach for the guide I'm writing and came across these.
I know that Scenic Railways are slow and plodding, but there was a reason for it and this image shows why:
The things were originally like a modern dark ride, or Expedition Everest, type of thing. So you went slowly around scenes and then would drop suddenly (if slowly by today's standards) into a new scene area.
I'd have loved to have seen one of these things in their glory days.
And speaking of Great Yarmouth, obviously there's this footage from 1982 from when Stone Cold visited (the park is featured later in the video):
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