IT'S MORE OF A LYLE LANLEY IDEA

On paper, the rollercoaster makes no sense.

"What we're going to do is build a set a tracks."

"And where do these tracks go?"

"They don't go anywhere - that's the beauty of it. They just go around a big loop, back to the start."

"So, what's people's incentive to ride on this 'rollercoaster'? Is it a particularly smooth ride?"

"No, no - it's really bumpy and dangerous. We're going to need automatic safety bars on these things to stop people falling out and getting themselves hurt or killed."

How did an idea like that make it past the planning stage? I cannot comprehend of any fairground owner thinking that there was mileage in the concept of people paying money to go around a circuit of tracks so that they could get off pretty much exactly where they started. Unless the fairground owner was catching the train to and from work each day - then it would make a kind of perverted sense.

Of course, I'm just guessing here about how they pitched the first rollercoaster concept. Maybe they had actually planned these things as an alternative transport system, just for very small, local journeys. It was only when the conductor noticed that the same kids kept going around the circuit, screaming and enjoying themselves that he figured maybe there was a better use for the Nemesis and Mantis Line trains.