Blackpool Pleasure Beach park opened its first wooden roller coaster which was known as "The Scenic Railway". It was during this time that the park began to trade under the name "Blackpool Pleasure Beach". In 1909, Bean expanded the Pleasure Beach business by purchasing a second amusement park up the coast in Morecambe under the name "West End Amusement Park", which would later become Frontierland, Morecambe. The success of the Morecambe park led to a third amusement park opening four years later in Southport under the name Pleasureland Southport. Meanwhile, the Pleasure Beach was developed with frequent large scale investments including "The Velvet
Ainsdale Beach railway station Ainsdale Beach railway station Ainsdale Beach was a railway station located in Ainsdale, Merseyside, England. The Southport & Cheshire Lines Extension Railway (SCLER) opened a line extending their existing system from Aintree to Southport on 1 September 1884. Seeing the potential in Ainsdale's large beach they subsequently built this station, which opened as "Seaside" in 1901. In 1911 it was decided to rename the station "Ainsdale Beach", which took effect from 1 January 1912. The station was built adjacent to a hotel called The Lakeside Hotel (in 2015 named 'The Sands' and trading as a local pub) situated at the