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Winter (Shutdown) Is Coming

With Halloween in the rearview, the festive season is on the way, and fast approaching for most UK theme parks is winter shutdown. As the theme park season winds down,...

The Jurassic History of Garmendale Engineering Limited

This July marks 30 years since Steven Spielberg's dino-romp masterpiece hit theatres. A summer blockbuster 65 million years in the making, with a stellar cast and cutting edge visual and...

Garmendale Engineering At Your Service

Easter has come and gone marking the beginning of 2023's theme park season in the UK. Over the last few months our team have been working up and down the...

Celebrating A Very Special Birthday!

This August is the 90th Anniversary of arguably Denmark’s finest export and the Universes favourite toy. LEGO is one of the world’s most recognisable brands, with toys, films, tv shows,...

An Olympic Throwback

With an incredible Olympic Games for Team GB coming to a close it felt like a great time to reflect on Garmendale’s own piece of Olympic History. Team GB took...

Testing…..Testing…..123

The Theme Park World unsurprisingly moves very fast and has its ups and downs. With this exhilarating world of rollercoasters and dark rides, technology is ever-changing. As part of our...

We Don’t Just Create World Class Theme Park Rides

We Don’t Just Create World Class Theme Park Rides Garmendale Engineering Ltd is extremely humbled to be regarded as a World Class Theme Park Engineering Business. We love nothing more...

The Wizardry of Dark Rides

This week the UK reopened all indoor attractions meaning British theme park goers can once again experience the magic of Dark Rides. As a family-based engineering business, creating experiences and...

Garmendale’s Jungle Adventure

Garmendale’s Jungle Adventure – If you are looking for something exciting to treat your little ones to this weekend, we recommends Garmendale's latest Guide Master Ride System bringing the excitement...

Gangsta Granny: The Ride Had Some Very Special Visitors This Week

Just in case you missed it, Garmendale Engineering’s latest Dark Ride opens this month to the public and we cannot be more excited. The wait is finally over, after a...

New fitting shop for Garmendale

Over the last year or two, there has been significant growth at Garmendale. We've grown our design, fabrication and fitting teams to be able to deliver this work. What this...

Railway Chassis Refurbishment

At Garmendale, we work on some very interesting engineering projects and this latest one is no exception. It’s the first of four railway chassis refurbishment jobs we are undertaking. Garmendale...

Rhino Race for Chessington World of Adventures Resort

The White Rhino is one of the biggest and heaviest living, land-based animals in the world. The male weighs in at around 2,300kg (around the same as a new Range...

Joel Wright and the Electrical Test Centre

Joel Wright has joined the team as an Electrical Engineer. Joel, who is 24, lives in Long Eaton with his wife. With a father who is an electrician too, his...

Electrical and pneumatic test and assembly area

We've been busy over the Christmas break and are well on the way to completing the design and construction of a new electrical and pneumatic test, repair and assembly area. It's another...

That was 2017 – A year in review at Garmendale

2016 was a very big year for Garmendale as the business grew and developed our range of rides for theme parks and attractions. Well, we're delighted to report in this...

The apprentice that engineers theme park rides

Last week (December 6th 2017) saw the launch of the 2018 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering. It is a global £1 million prize that celebrates a ground-breaking innovation in engineering...

Finishing metal with a vibratory tumbler

One of the unusual machines we have in a quiet corner of the workshop is a vibratory tumbler. It's like a great big potato rumbler for metal parts and was...