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Wildlife Express Train

Een smalspoortransport van Harambe naar Conservation Station, zonder minimumlengte, langs backstage dierenzorgfaciliteiten.

Wildlife Express Train verbindt Africa met Conservation Station en geeft Animal Kingdom een rustig transportmoment tussen de grote dierengebieden. De rit voelt als een korte spoorreis achter de schermen: vanaf Harambe rijd je langs dierenverblijven, servicegebieden en het spoorlandschap dat bij Rafiki's Planet Watch hoort.

Normal 5 min
Average 9 min
Highest measurement 50 min Measured at 30-06 15:03
Type Ride
Category Transport
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Coaster profile

Classification

Scale low
Opened April 22, 1998
Ride type Heritage railway
Manufacturer Severn Lamb
Designer Walt Disney Imagineering
Locomotive designer George McGinnis
Official one-way duration 7 minutes
Route length 1.2 mi (1.9 km) / 6,335.3 ft (1,931.0 m)
Track gauge 3.0 ft (0.9 m)
Locomotives 3 steam-outline locomotives
Passenger cars 10
Riders per train 250
Minimum height None

Tracks

Length 6,335.3 ft (1,931.0 m)
Ride duration 7:00

Trains

Arrangement Afrikaans gethematiseerde 3 ft smalspoortreinen. Wikipedia vermeldt 3 steam-outline locomotieven en 10 passenger cars; de bestaande voertuigdata gebruikt 5 rijtuigen per trein en 250 rijders per trein.
Trains 3
Cars per train 5
Rows per car 2
Riders per train 250

Notes

De officiële Walt Disney World-pagina noemt een 7 minuten durende, 1,2 mijl lange rit vanaf Harambe naar Conservation Station langs animal care facilities voor onder meer rhinos en elephants. Wikipedia vermeldt opening op 22 april 1998, Severn Lamb, Walt Disney Imagineering, 3 ft smalspoor, drie steam-outline locomotieven, tien passenger cars, 250 rijders per voertuig en circa 12 minuten voor een volledige retourbeweging.

Theming

De spoorlijn voelt als een verweerde Eastern Star Railway-verbinding tussen Harambe en Rafiki's Planet Watch, met zicht op backstage dierenzorgfaciliteiten onderweg.

Data

Wait statistics

Based on available measurements and historical wait-time data.

Now Closed
Normal 5 min
Average 9 min
Highest measurement 50 min Measured at 30-06 15:03
Measurements 4564
Outage measurements 67
Avg. outage duration 22 min
Often busy 17:00 10 min average
Often quiet 08:00 5 min average
Reliability High 4646 measurements, 10 hour blocks
Distribution

Boxplots

Spread of wait times, outage duration, and the number of outages per day based on available historical data.

Wait times

4564 measurements

0 min 15 min 30 min 45 min 60 min
Min
5 min
Q1
5 min
Median
5 min
Q3
10 min
Max
50 min

Typical wait time: around 5 min.

It usually falls between 5 min and 10 min.

See more than 10 min? It is probably busier than usual — consider a quieter moment.

Less than 5 min? You are in luck: that does not happen often.

Outage duration

19 outages

0 min 25 min 50 min 75 min 100 min
Min
5 min
Q1
5 min
Median
10 min
Q3
26 min
Max
98 min

Outages usually last about 10 min.

Some are over quickly (sometimes within 5 min), others take longer (up to 26 min). That varies per outage.

Already longer than 26 min? The attraction may stay closed a while longer.

Outages per day

8 days

0 1 2 3 4
Min
2
Q1
2
Median
2
Q3
2
Max
4

On days with outages, we see an average of 2 per day.

That usually falls between 2 and 2.

On quiet days it was 2, on busy days up to 4.

Historical

Wait-time build-up

Today compared with historical wait times by hour.

Today Historical
Horizontal axis hours, vertical axis queue minutes. 0 min 5 min 10 min 15 min 20 min 08:00 10:00 12:00 14:00 16:00 18:00 19:00