That's true, Thanks! It doesn't matter too much because I'm a Merlin Pass holder but live about an hour and a half away. Think I'm going on Monday now.
There was engineers at the top of the lift hill until about 2:30 today and didn't open until about an hour later. Didn't break down again but the staff did say there was problems with it yesterday.
All three times I looked at today there seemed to be staff on a stepladder in the middle, and yes there was loads of hanging cables coming down from it.