Blackpool Pleasure Beach hotel "The Big Blue Hotel" with a four star AA rating, situated adjacent to Blackpool Pleasure Beach railway station towards the south end of Ocean Boulevard opened in Spring 2003. In 2019 a second hotel will open on Ocean Boulevard. Featuring 120 rooms, 10 suites and function rooms, the hotel has been named The Boulevard Hotel and is expected to open in the Spring. The hotel replaces the former Starr Pub and Coasters Restaurant and sits adjacent to The Big Blue Hotel on the south end of the promenade. Pleasure Beach is alleged to be haunted by several ghosts and
Beach Road railway station Northam carrying a few friends of the Directors. Jack Shears, who lived at Northam, was one of the trackmen who worked to maintain the permanent way. No photographs appear to exist of Beach Road Halt. Beach Road railway station Beach Road railway station was a minor railway station or halt/request stop in North Devon, close to Westward Ho!, serving the residents of Eastboune Terrace and the outlying areas of Westward Ho!. This was the last stop before Northam that was the terminus station on the line in 1901 prior to the extension to Appledore of 1908. Beach Road Halt had