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Blackpool Pleasure Beach · Shuttle Loop · 1979
Europe's first modern looping coaster: forwards through the loop, then all the way back again.
✏️ Who designed it
- Ing.-Büro Stengel GmbHEngineering / layout
Confidence: Probable · Source: RCDB
Attribution reported but not confirmed by the park.
🎢 Quick Facts
- Park
- Blackpool Pleasure Beach
- Opened
- 1979
- Manufacturer
- Arrow Dynamics
- Type
- Shuttle Loop
- Height
- Not currently confirmed
- Track Length
- 610 m (2,001 ft) (estimated)
- Top speed
- Not currently confirmed
- Inversions
- Not currently confirmed
- Launch
- Not currently confirmed
- Duration
- Not currently confirmed
- Minimum height
- Not currently confirmed
- Original build cost
- £1m (Known)
- Status
- Operating
Published/reported figure.
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