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ATA › Gallery › Construction › Rita - Queen of Speed › February 23rd 2005
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 Corkscrew's station, without a roof to cover it from the snow fall. Note how close Rita comes to it.
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 From Corkscrew's brake run, we take a look towards Rita's station.
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 A closer shot of one of Rita's trains, sat in the launch area.
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 From Corkscrew, we take a look across at Rita's hydraulics shed, along with the "tyre" entrance sign, and the posts marking out Rita's queue line.
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 The Priority Pass Queue entrance (left) and the Single Rider Queue entrance (right), complete with "flaming tyre" signs.
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 A look at one of the Rita trains, now fully assembled. As anticipated, the train is five cars in length. No modifications have been made to the restraints at present.
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 Rita's queue line entrance sign, as seen from the front. The tyre motif is continued here also.
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 Corkscrew's queue line entrance, which has now been reinstalled in Ug Land, having been removed in December.
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 Another look at the sign. In the background, you can see both Corkscrew's queue line being built and also part of Rita's.
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 These posts in front of Rita's station are marking out the normal and single rider queue lines.
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 Ug Bugs, which has been relocated to the old Cadbury's Chocolate House site in Cred Street. It remains to be seen whether the ride will keep its old name in 2005.
 
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