Status Operating Closed 1 June 2014 Opened 22 April 1998 Designer Walt Disney Imagineering | Attraction type Train Track gauge 3 ft (914 mm) Duration 12 minutes Soft opening date 21 April 1998 | |
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Area AfricaRafiki's Planet Watch Similar TriceraTop Spin, Primeval Whirl, Kali River Rapids, Kilimanjaro Safaris, Discovery River Boats | ||
Wildlife express train ride at disney s animal kingdom full ride
The Wildlife Express Train is a short railway that takes guests at Disney's Animal Kingdom from Harambe Station in the Africa section to Conservation Station in the Rafiki's Planet Watch section. During the ride, portions of the Animal Kingdom backlot can be seen, including animal holding buildings for rhinos and elephants, among other animals as well as the roundhouse where the trains are stored. It takes about seven minutes to go from Harambe Station to Conservation Station and an additional five minutes to return. The railway is built to a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge, which is smaller than the 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 3⁄8 in) metre gauge currently used on East African railways. The full journey is a 1.2-mile (1.9 km) round trip.
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The railway is part of the fictional Eastern Star Railway, running from Lusaka to Nairobi and Kisangani.
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Rolling stock
The railway uses three diesel-hydraulic steam outline locomotives built by Severn Lamb of Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom in 1997 before the park's opening the following year. Two are colored a red, while the third is colored green. They have a wheel arrangement of 2-4-2T and are based on the L&YR Class 5 locomotives designed by John Aspinall for the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway in England in 1898 at Horwich Works in Horwich. The builder's plates of the locomotives, however, tell a different story, stating that the locomotives were built in 1926 by Beyer Peacock of Gorton Foundry in Manchester. Their numbers are 02594, 04982, and 00174 with the former being named, R. Baba Harpoor, in honor of Imagineer Bob Harpur.
The rail line also uses two sets of train cars, each consisting of five coaches with a total seating capacity of 250 people per train.
