The Flume ( Alton Towers ) - wikipedia The Flume ( Alton Towers ) The Flume Alton Towers Area Mutiny Bay 52 ° 59 ′ 20 '' N 1 ° 53 ′ 20 '' W ﻿ / ﻿ 52.988995 ° N 1.888847 ° W ﻿ / 52.988995 ; - 1.888847 Status Closed Opening date 1981 ( 1981 ) Closing date 10 October 2015 ( 2015 - 10 - 10 ) Replaced by SW8 General statistics Type Log flume Manufacturer Mack Rides Height 27 m ( 89 ft ) Drop 26 m ( 85 ft ) Length 886 m ( 2,907 ft ) Speed 45 km / h ( 28 mph ) Capacity 1,400 riders per hour Duration 6 minutes Vehicle type Boat / Bath Tub Boats 35 boats. Riders are arranged 1 across in 5 rows for a total of 5 riders per boat. Height restriction 100 cm ( 3 ft 3 in ) Site area 5 1 / 2 acres Must transfer from wheelchair The Flume was a Log Flume at Alton Towers in Staffordshire. It opened in 1981 and was rethemed in 2004 coinciding with its sponsorship by Imperial Leather. The ride was a bath time themed log flume with three drops. It was the longest log flume attraction in the world at the time of opening. The attraction closed in 2015 and was removed a year later for the area 's redevelopment into the SW8 rollercoaster. Contents 1 Ride Experience 2 History 3 Media gallery 4 References 5 External links Ride experience The ride was about 6 minutes long and starts by loading in the circular station. Once the ' bath ' had dispatched from the station it went round a few turns and up to the first lift hill. The car then dropped down a small drop and turned around the woodland until it came to the second lift hill which was enclosed in a hut - style building & a drop which was in the dark. At the bottom there was a giant rubber duck that you go past. The ride then wound around the woodland again and then went 86ft up a lift hill and then dropped 85ft down a drop into some brakes. Finally the ' bath ' went through two showers and back into the station. History In 1980, Alton Towers opened the ride Corkscrew along with a few other amusement attractions. Alton Towers gained popularity so for the 1981 season they decided to open a log flume. Construction started in late 1980 to open the ride for the 1981 season. the park 's first major scale engineering project including purpose built reservoir sunk into a former field. The 5.5 acre site was bordered on 2 sides by the Park Railway. initially access to the new ride was via a railway bridge over the tracks, by 1982 the Railway had been shortened to allow easier access for the popular new ride. In 1981 the ' White Water Flume ' opened to the public as the world 's longest log flume with it 's 2600ft waterway themed around the Canadian Falls, by 1983 the ride had acquired it 's traditional and more popular name of ' The Log Flume ' & for the next 23 years operated as such. Between 1984 - 95 it also featured props from ' Dinosaur Land ' which had been closed the previous season to make way for The Black Hole, including a prehistoric family inside the tunnel section of the flume. In 2004 the ride was re-themed to ' The Flume ' with a bath theme, as sponsored by a soap manufacturer ; new ' bath ' boats replacing the logs, new lining, maintenance, a refurbished station, a yellow duck, shower and other bath - time theming. In 2008, the area in which the ride operated was re-themed to Mutiny Bay, however the ride retained its bath time theme. Weeks before the beginning of the 2016 season, Alton Towers announced that the ride was to be closed permanently. On March 16, 2016, the park posted a photo through their Towers Loving Care Twitter page of a sign on the perimeter of the former area of the attraction that reads `` SW8. Ground breaking new ride development '', marking the construction site for the resort 's next large investment SW8. After the ride 's closure and during the construction of SW8, the resort held charity auctions with lots containing a variety of items from The Flume. This included various queue line and warning signage, as well as the ride boats. Media gallery route of The Flume References ^ Jump up to : `` The Flume - The Park of the Past - Your premier Alton Towers guide ''. towersstreet.com. Jump up ^ Alton Towers retires Flume water ride - Ride Rater - UK Theme Park News Jump up ^ ( 1 ) - Towers Loving Care Twitter page External links http://old.towerstimes.co.uk/attractions/mb/flume.htm at the Towers Times website Clips of old Log Flume ride Youtube clip of the Log Flume ( retheme as bath tubs ) Alton Towers Roller coasters Runaway Mine Train ( 1992 ) Nemesis ( 1994 ) Oblivion ( 1998 ) Galactica ( 2002 - 2015 as Air ) ( 2016 ) Spinball Whizzer ( 2004 ) Rita ( 2005 ) TH13TEEN ( 2010 ) The Smiler ( 2013 ) Octonauts Rollercoaster Adventure ( 2015 ) Other rides The Blade as Pirate Ship ( 1980 ) Enterprise ( 1984 ) Congo River Rapids ( 1986 ) Hex -- The Legend of the Towers ( 2000 ) Duel - The Haunted House Strikes Back ! ( 2003 ) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory : The Ride ( 2006 ) Driving School ( 2006 ) Marauder 's Mayhem ( 2008 ) Battle Galleons ( 2008 ) Twirling Toadstool ( 2009 ) Nemesis : Sub-Terra ( 2012 ) The Ice Age : Dawn of the Dinosaurs - 4 - D Experience ( 2012 ) Past rides Doom & Sons ( 1981 -- 1992 ) Around The World In Eighty Days ( 1981 -- 1993 ) Thunder Looper ( 1990 -- 1996 ) The Beast ( 1988 -- 1997 ) Nickelodeon : Outta Control ( 1997 -- 1998 ) Boneshaker ( 1995 -- 2003 ) The Black Hole ( 1984 -- 2005 ) Dynamo ( 1993 -- 2005 ) Toyland Tours ( 1994 -- 2005 ) Corkscrew ( 1980 -- 2008 ) Beastie ( 1983 -- 2010 ) Submission ( 2001 -- 2013 ) The Flume ( 1981 - 2015 ) Ripsaw ( 1997 -- 2015 ) Theme park areas Towers Street Katanga Canyon Gloomy Wood Forbidden Valley Adventure Land X-Sector Mutiny Bay Cloud Cuckoo Land Dark Forest CBeebies Land The Towers & Gardens See also Alton Towers Waterpark Merlin Entertainments John Wardley History of Alton Towers The Grand Knockout Tournament Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Flume_(Alton_Towers)&oldid=807285191 '' Categories : Closed amusement attractions Amusement rides introduced in 1981 Amusement rides that closed in 2015 Log flume rides Water rides manufactured by Mack Rides Water rides by name Alton Towers Buildings and structures demolished in 2016 Demolished buildings and structures in England Hidden categories : Use dmy dates from January 2015 Use British English from January 2015 All articles with unsourced statements Articles with unsourced statements from December 2015 Talk Contents About Wikipedia Add links This page was last edited on 27 October 2017, at 01 : 19. 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Question: when did the log flume closed at alton towers
Answer: 2015; 10 October 2015; 10 October 2015; 2015; 2015