Whilst out on a brief evening stroll in Bridlington, we came across staff of the Bayside Leisure Park in Bridlington trying to remove the Ghost Train from site.
The ride had been folded away for transit and attached to the back of a lorry, unfortunately the exercise was more problematic then anticipated, due to the angle of bend and steepness of the only access point.
The only way to remove the ghost train was to reverse the lorry up a steep and bendy path, unfortunately as the picture below shows their wasn’t enough clearance on the back of the trailer to avoid it grounding and jamming against the road.
Without any other exit points along the Bridlington front the lorry was now stuck and a solution was urgently required, to provide extra clearance the staff placed planks underneath the rear of the lorry to provide additional height, and wet the path with hose pipes to reduce the friction on the surface. The following video shows the hose pipe in action.
The operation now involved tiny movements to get the trailer around the bend, at the front of the cabin there were only a few inches of clearance space from the sea wall, and with the end of the trailer scraping along the road, every movement was vital, and not without danger. In the following video the Lorry almost hits both a member of the Bayside staff and a wall.
The whole operation took about 4 hours from the start of the problems until the end, and all involved deserve a great deal of praise for resolving the situation as it could have been alot worse, but it wasn’t without damage, a wall on the ramp way was damaged during the process.
Bayside Leisure Park was recently in the news when their was a serious accident on it’s Jungle River Log Flume
