Roller Coaster (Great Yarmouth Pleasure Beach)
Roller Coaster – also known as Scenic Railway or The Scenic – is a wooden roller coaster at Great Yarmouth Pleasure Beach, Great Yarmouth, UK. The ride was built at the park in 1932 and has been operational since. It is one of only two scenic railways still in operation in the UK and one of only seven in the world. In common with most scenic railways, an operator rides the car. Traditionally referred to as a 'brakesperson’, the operator applies brakes on the car to control its speed and to stop it at the end of the ride, as there are no brakes on the track. It is the second tallest and second fastest wooden roller coaster in the UK. It is also a Grade II listed building.
Roller Coaster in August 2020
Roller Coaster seen soon after construction was completed in May 1932.
The painted cladding of Roller Coaster seen in 1974.
The top of the lift hill structure with the green train on the second drop.
A brakeman is a rail transport worker whose original job was to assist the braking of a train by applying brakes on individual wagons. The advent of through brakes, brakes on every wagon which could be controlled by the driver, made this role redundant, although the name lives on, for example, in the United States where brakemen carry out a variety of functions both on the track and within trains.
A Santa Fe Railroad brakeman atop a train that has paused at Cajon, California, to cool its brakes after descending Cajon Pass in March 1943.
Brakeman's cab (left) on a Prussian compartment coach
During the early days of railroading, one of the most deadly jobs in America was that of brakeman, who worked from the top of moving trains in all weather