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Take a look through some of our featured blog posts where we have displayed a handful of our accomplishments. Updated regularly so stay tuned for future content.

29th January 2020

The Tractor Ride by Garmendale

Simple and reliable The Tractor Ride by Garmendale is quiet and efficient in operation and yet simple to maintain. We can say this with some degree of confidence as some of our tractor rides have already been in operation in themed attractions for over ten trouble free years, having just undergone routine maintenance. Extra safety […]

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29th January 2020

Dark Ride and Immersive Tunnel Ride Systems

The Immersive Tunnel solution by Garmendale is the Motion Master. It’s a purpose designed immersive

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29th January 2020

The Derbyshire Theme Park Factory

Garmendale have been designing, making and mending theme park rides and systems since 1980.

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8th January 2020

How to build a Dark Ride – How Garmendale built the Forbidden Caves at Bobbejaanland

If you’ve ever wondered how to build a dark ride, in this post, we’ll show you how we built the Forbidden Caves at Bobbejaanland. It’s now approaching five years since the Forbidden Caves at Bobbejaanland opened to the public. It’s one of those projects that ran perfectly from the start of the design to the […]

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18th December 2019

Seasons Greetings from all of us at Garmendale

It’s coming to the end of another year and time for us all to have a few days break to rest, reflect and prepare for the new year ahead. 2019 has been another milestone year for us with some of our most exciting and high profile projects in our near 40-year history. We’ve delivered our […]

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2nd December 2019

Tom Malandain – How I became a theme park ride design engineer

The Garmendale team is full of talented engineers, many of whom came through different paths to reach their goal. So, in the hope of inspiring a whole new generation of young engineers, we thought we’d share a series of interviews with them, starting with one of the youngest first. Tom Malandain, 23, joined Garmendale as […]

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15th November 2019

Log Flume Refurbishment completed

Refurbishing log flumes can be a tricky business but, no sooner has our latest water ride refurb project arrived, it’s completed and on its way out of the factory again. It’s back on its way to a new home and looking as good as when it first left the factory in 2009. In just 27 […]

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15th October 2019

Log flume refurbishment

Winter at Garmendale always brings in some of our most interesting work and for the last few years, we have completed a number of log flume refurbishment projects. The latest one to arrive at the workshop looks in a slightly sorry state but that’s more to do with the fact that it’s been sat in […]

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2nd October 2019

A Passion for Metal Fabrication

We're passionate about Metal Fabrication. It has been at the heart of our culture and the centre of our business for over 50 years. We live and breathe it.

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