They might have put the beginning section of the lift hill up when that guy left. Photos today from Theme UK. When you look closely in the middle of one of the pics, you can see track has been put in. http://www.themeuk.net/LC12_Thorpe_ParkPG1.html

The steel building construction isn't the station; it's the maintenance shed. Judging by whereabouts the station will be in concordance with the location of the maintenance shed, I'd go so far as to say that the piece of track (considering that's what it is, and it's been placed) is a piece of section track ready and in place.But then again, without the station's vertical construction, why would much of the track be put up? Surely they'd wait?

Surely station framework will be built first before the track?Also, I was gonna ask if they were going to try and hide the maintenance shed like Raptor does (in fact, the queue goes on top of it) but looking at that pic, they won't... Hopefully they'll theme it to make it fit in...

In another pic, you can see the track, but not so clearly. Look carefully.

Love these pictures of trees and small grey objects in the background by the way.

Interesting to note in that cross-site picture that all the lift hill footers are done and ready to accept supports. Still an annoying number stacked at the side though.

Went today and couldn't see this alleged track piece, but sure!

A clearer view of the station track was taken by Theme Park Guide today, as well as some other images of construction, nearly all footers are thought to have been put in as well. Yay for vertical construction pics, it might just be station track, but it's going up!

I was looking at the pic above looking at the plans looks like the food and bev unit and photo units are on site

Finally, it may be a little blurry, but here we have the first clear picture of installed track (not including the service track!)I expect by the Saturday, we should have either a good portion of the lift hill in place, or if we are going backwards, hopefully up to the in-line twist! So exciting seeing The Swarm emerging out of the mud!!!

Is my phone playing up or did you forget to attach the picture?

I thought the station was to be higher off the ground... Oh wells...Might be able to have some proper discussion now...

Probably dumb ass question time, but what is that cottagey looking building with a massively steep pitched roof in the background?

On-site workshop probably...

the building I think its is grade 2 listed

I love the amount of on site articulated lorries, due to the track delivery?

Is my phone playing up or did you forget to attach the picture?

No silly! Soz, I was referring to the picture above, my bad.

The Swarm is running behind schedule. Banta.

Mark my words, 6 weeks and this baby will be up and towering over TP. Construction of the steel will be fairly quick, but the theming and landscaping is going to take much longer!

I've got to say it is slow but they are clearly waiting till Fright Nights - to make it more of a story for The Swarm; post it on the web and hype it up. I can see it now: "100 people go missing from Fright Nights!", and they post the missing individuals on the "Missing Wall" from The Swarm Mini-Site.And another thing - how come Mania Hub updates are a lot slower then the other sites of late? They have pictures. We seem to be getting more updates from other sites than we do Mania Hub.

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Mark my words, 6 weeks and this baby will be up and towering over TP. Construction of the steel will be fairly quick, but the theming and landscaping is going to take much longer!

Apparently they are supposed to announce something on The Swarm on the September 27th!

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^I think you mean the october 27th.

Well according to Theme Park Guide supports and track will be erected this week and they will be testing The Swarm in January. So it's not like we have that long to wait until the swarm will be built, yes it is taking bloody ages to get the thing built but if track really is going up this week we should be more patient.

Theme Park Guide are quoted for saying:

"Well not much has happened since we last went to the park apart from the fact that all of the footers for the ride have now ALL been done"

Yet below that post, they have a collection of pictures, three of which show large piles of the concrete shells; the footers, as they have been for the past two months. Suffice to say much information from them isn't very reliable. The track will go up when it goes up. I'd rather they take longer over themeing and landscaping elements if I'm honest.

I've had the privelidge to see a few bits of the theming... namely two airplane propellas... and a broken fire engine. To say they're amazing, is an understatement.