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Alton Towers

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Historical queue times (2025-10-29)

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Ride statistics

Current queue time 110 mins
Opened 2013-05-31
Duration 2 minutes, 45 seconds
Maximum height 30m
Maximum speed 85km/h
Maximum G-force 4.5G
Number of inversions 14
Number of vehicles 4
Riders per vehicle 16
Ride cost £18,000,000
Ride type Infinity Coaster
Ride manufacturer Gerstlauer
Length 1170m
Minimum rider height 1.4m
On ride photo available Yes
Coordinates (OSM) 52.9873, -1.89544

Average queue time by year (🎆 Fireworks, all time)

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Year Overall average queue time, mins Average maximum queue time, mins
2016 90 110
2017 45 75
2018 79 125
2019 48 75
2020 — —
2021 — —
2022 50 83
2023 73 97
2024 54 75
2025 — —

Average queue time by month (🎆 Fireworks, all time)

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Month Overall average queue time, mins Average maximum queue time, mins
Nov 60 88

Average queue time by day (🎆 Fireworks, all time)

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Day Overall average queue time, mins Average maximum queue time, mins
Sun 62 83
Fri 44 82
Sat 70 98

Top 10 longest queues (🎆 Fireworks, all time)

Day Queue time, mins
November 03, 2018 130
November 03, 2023 120
November 03, 2023 120
November 04, 2018 120
November 05, 2016 120
November 09, 2024 100
November 09, 2024 100
November 04, 2022 100
November 04, 2022 100
November 09, 2019 100

Average queue time by hour (🎆 Fireworks, all time)

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Hour Overall average queue time, mins Average maximum queue time, mins
10 45 57
11 54 61
12 62 68
13 61 70
14 66 72
15 68 76
16 71 77
17 47 51
20 55 64

Average queue time by week of year (🎆 Fireworks, all time)

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