Sadly, roller coasters, like everything, don’t last forever. Over time, theme parks change and adapt. Some rides seem to be exempt from this, however. There are five roller coasters within the UK that cannot legally be destroyed. These theme parks couldn’t turn around tomorrow and begin to demolish these rides. Why? Because they’ve been designated as important by the UK government.
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00:00 Introduction
00:59 Protecting and preserving history
02:15 Grand National
03:00 Blue Flyer
03:25 Roller Coaster
04:02 Big Dipper
04:51 Scenic Railway
05:19 What does listed status mean?
08:34 New wood, same ride
Videos:
Your Experience Guide: https://www.youtube.com/@pleasurebeachexperience.
Attraction Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFWvRCDAgYg
5G: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9vFRcDhbG8
ATC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_FFIYnxLLI
davidjellis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NM1FuAcwV-s, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vu4z8HkDpAE
Great Yarmouth Pleasure Beach: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=949hDZX1Izo
historic england: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRIlbL2Lhy8, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlTB5ZfkGQk, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uy-JNofMVd4
JB Coaster: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kM8l-myx8uw
psyclonesteve: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjUQMX2SK3U
Ride View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-iMZyKAUPI
Steve the coaster fan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXohtXY0tJw
Coaster Crusader: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcM9AiVzEfA
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Grand national and the old fun house were listed rides/buildings… one burnt dow to the ground and the other had a serious fire over the years but survived because of the hard work of Blackpool fire services… quite a loop hole
Great video as always Harry!
All those woodys are basically Trigger's broom lol 😂
My favourite ride as a kid was ‘the bullet’ at flamingoland. This has actually been moved to Selvia Magica and I would LOVE to go to Mexico and ride it again! My fear though would be that after riding so many epic rides, it would probably feel a lot different to how I remember it.
And despite this, people still convince themselves that Grand National can just easily be RMC'd without realising that in the UK, we don't just grotesquely oppsie-erase our history for new and shiny… we have enough to preserve it – and do.
All listed and all amazing
I guess on the upside the UK does not get big storms, Guessing these seaside parks never have to fear something like Sandy coming along and throwing their ride into the ocean. Like that famous image from New Jersey of a rollercoaster sitting in the Atlantic.
I could easily see nemesis getting listed. It’s being retracted, which will give it another 30-40+ years, and by that point it will be almost 70. It’s just had such a massive impact on the UK theme park scene, and has also had significant contribution globally to rollercoasters.
This was very informative 😊
Good video, Harry! Very informative. I like old school wooden roller coasters. It brings back nostalgia and allows you a break from the intensity and speed from modern day coasters. Although I haven't ridden any of these coasters yet, I can relate this to the experience I had at Kennywood in 2014 while riding their three old wooden coasters. They were lots of fun, smooth, and definitely underrated. Glad to see the classics retain their style!
I could understand Big Dipper, but Grand National never should have gotten protected status. All protected status does for roller coasters is put off future owners. Leading to them either not purchasing the park and putting in significant investment or placing a lower bid.
I am like number 723
When i was around 9-10, I was so determined to go on the grand national even though I was generally not a fan of rollercoasters. My aunt asked me before I went on if I was really sure I wanted to and I wasn’t about to leave without going on, cause even though I was 10, I knew I probably wouldn’t get to ride it again until I was a lot older since Blackpool to my family was very much a once every 3-5 years sort of situation. So I got on, and it became my favourite rollercoaster, EVER. It was fast, it was thrilling and there wasn’t any 100ft drop, crazy inversions or anything of the sort. I loved it so much I begged to go on again but it was getting late so my request was denied. 2 years later we were able to go to Blackpool again, and my mission? Get back on the grand national. We were early in the morning when the park just opened, however, it was pouring with rain, so my grandma told me that I’d have to leave it until another time. I was angry, sure, but I understood. Yet, 7 years after that first ride, I’ve never been on the grand national again, even though now I’m a lot more confident about going on coasters myself. (since somehow nearly everyone in my family apart from my uncle either hate rollercoasters or have a medical condition preventing them from going on them which is totally understandable!) I’m hoping that once I turn 18, I’ll be able to save up a bit of money so that I can take my family to Blackpool again and that I’ll be able to ride my favourite rollercoaster again 😊
So why not the Roller Coaster at Blackpool? I mean, sigh, "Nickelodeon Streak"? It's older than Grand Nash, right?
The ship of theseus concept is so interesting to think about. It reminds me of the idea that the human body replaces it's cells in 7 year cycle. We aren't even fully our original selves.
It’s a shame and now holding bpb back. People don’t want to reride those coasters and after one brutal ride you seriously wonder what all the hype is about
Dorney Park's Thunderhawk will turn 100 in 2024. It is the oldest coaster in the entire Cedar Fair chain, and with the American Coaster Enthusiasts (ACE) presenting it with a Coaster Landmark plaque recently, it has become one of the VERY few wood coasters in the USA to be saved from the soulless, selfish, history-hating onslaught that is RMC.
They destroyed the oldest wooden coaster at conneaut lake Park in pa
No wonder all the rides at Blackpool feel like they're shaking your bones out of your body 😂
One small correction/clarification: Here in the UK the Ship of Theseus is correctly known as "Trigger's Broom".
I think nemisis (Alton towers) will be listed one day. It's getting a retrack but it's unlikely to ever be demolished because of how it was built into the landscape
I love the grand national coster brings back memory’s of going pleasure beach with my grandparents
Neat video. Also just a correction, but I'm pretty sure Vuoristorata at Linnanmaki in Finland is actually the largest operating scenic railway in the world. That ride was built in 1951 to a Scenic railway design with no side- or upstop wheels and is still operated with a brakeman to this day. The ride was designed by Danish roller coaster designer Valdemar Lebech who kept building large scale scenic railways into the 1950's. Vuoristorata is a near clone of Rutschebanen at Bakken, which is slightly smaller and opened in 1932. It has however been converted to brakemanless operation in 2010 with (awful) trains by Kumbak (also fun fact, that ride is also a grade listed structure and even owned and operated by the Danish government's department of nature).
Waldemar Lebechs only surviving work are Tivoli's Rutschebanen (from 1914), Rutschebanen at Bakken (from 1932) and Vuoristorata from 1951, but he also built other coasters. Most notably the defunct Bergbanan at Liseberg which operated from 1923 until 1987 which was just short of a whole kilometer in length and by far the biggest coaster he ever built (and the biggest roller coaster in the world when it opened in 1923)
Also rip the Wild Mouse. De-listed when it shouldn't have.