Platform 15The Years Of The Creek Tours:
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Platform 15 in it's first four year of the Fright Night Maze running 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 the maze route ran leaving the old Canada Creek Railway station platform and running down towards the engine shed, this is the opposite direction of how the CCR trains used to travel along the railway, before looping round the back of Logger Leap and then hitting the tunnel between Saw The Ride, which at the end of it you reached the finale. in 2017 a town scene was also added, as they further expanded the story of the maze.
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For 2020 with social distancing in mind due to Covid19 Pandemic, Thorpe Park announced that Platform 15 would return for a fifth season, but would run for the first time in the opposite direction starting from where the maze would end in it's original four seasons, and now finish with the finale at the old Canada Creek Railway station. This change also meant that for the first time since the maze originally opened you were walking around the maze, the same way in which the CCR trains used to run.
The transcript for the 2020 version of the story, which was played in the queue line tunnel, as apposed to told by the tour guides in the previous years can be found here. For the 20th Anniversary of Fright Nights in 2021, Thorpe Park announced as part of it's line-up, that Platform 15 will return for it's sixth and final season as; Platform 15: End Of The Line. Final call for all passengers! Depart on a one-way ticket and trek along the overgrown railway line, the last known route of the vanished locomotive - the notorious Sleeper Express. Don’t lose your tracks and risk disturbing the haunted souls that were once aboard. Can you outrun what lies at the end of the line or will your journey terminate here, at Platform 15?
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Platform 15 was the fifth maze at Thorpe Park to run for six consecutive years joining the ranks of The Asylum, Hellgate, Se7en, and Saw: Alive.
Platform 15 was also the sixth Fright Night Maze at Thorpe Park Resort to run for five consecutive years, joining the ranks of The Asylum, Hellgate, Se7en, The Curse and Saw: Alive. Platform 15 was nominated for the Best Original Concept and Design category in the Scare Con Awards in 2017. The final Creek Tours of Platform 15 took place to the general public on Sunday 31st October 2021, the maze then had four private buyout events on Thursday 4th November, to Sunday 7th November 2021, when the tours reached the End Of The Line.
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Platform 15 Easter Eggs:
Platform 15 has been referenced a number of times in the rethemed Ghost Train which opened in 2023. When boarding the carriages at Platform 13 you can see a sign in the station that points to Platform 15, alongside this there are other references to the maze in the ending of the experience, including posters of the characters, as well as the locomotive, and also the concept story for the attraction, which you can read here.
Platform 15 has been referenced a number of times in the rethemed Ghost Train which opened in 2023. When boarding the carriages at Platform 13 you can see a sign in the station that points to Platform 15, alongside this there are other references to the maze in the ending of the experience, including posters of the characters, as well as the locomotive, and also the concept story for the attraction, which you can read here.