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| Manufacturer | Intamin | ||||||||
| Product | Wooden Coaster (Prefabricated Track) | ||||||||
| Designer / calculations | Ing.-Büro Stengel GmbH | ||||||||
| Type | Wooden | ||||||||
| Riders per train | 36 | ||||||||
| Propulsion | Cable lift hill | ||||||||
| Height | 56 metres | ||||||||
| Drop | 46 metres | ||||||||
| Top speed | 104 km/h | ||||||||
| Length | 1641 metres | ||||||||
| Inversions | 0 | ||||||||
| Drop angle | 77° | ||||||||
T Express is a wooden roller coaster located in the European Adventure section of Everland in Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea. It was the steepest wooden roller coaster when it opened in 2008, at 77 degrees, beating El Toro st Six Flags Great Adventure by one degree. Outlaw Run at Silver Dollar City took that record in 2013. T Express is the first wooden roller coaster in South Korea, and the fourth prefabricated wooden roller coaster built by Intamin. It is also the first of its type in Asia and the first to use three trains.
Upon opening, the ride brought a large attendance increase to Everland, including 14% more college students and 73% more teenagers.
Design
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Unlike "traditional" wooden roller coasters, T Express was prefabricated in a factory. Instead of trackers cutting, shaping, and laying down the track, each piece of track was cut by using a laser. This means it was manufactured with a higher degree of precision than can be achieved by hand. The track snaps together easily and is made out of layers of wood that are tightly bonded together instead of nailed together by hand like a traditional wooden roller coaster. This makes the ride much smoother and speeds up construction (thus costing less as fewer man-hours are needed to construct the ride.
The ride features several high-speed turns and airtime hills. It also has a mid-course brake run.
Trains
3 trains with 6 cars per train. In each car, riders are arranged 2 across in 3 rows, for a total of 36 riders per train.
Rankings
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| Year | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | Ref. |
| Ranking | 1 | 3 | 1* | 2 | 2 | 2 | [1] |
*Tied with El Toro at Six Flags Great Adventure
References
External links
- T Express on the Roller Coaster DataBase.
| Tallest wooden roller coaster tied with Wildfire 2014–present | ||
| Preceded by Colossos |
Tallest wooden roller coaster tied with Wildfire 2014–present |
Succeeded by None |
| Steepest wooden roller coaster March 2008–March 2013 | ||
| Preceded by El Toro |
Steepest wooden roller coaster March 2008–March 2013 |
Succeeded by Outlaw Run |
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