Blackpool Pleasure Beach by Mack Rides in Germany. Icon is the first coaster in the UK to feature a double launch and is the largest ever single investment at the park costing £16.25 million. Pleasure Beach was founded in 1896 by Alderman William George Bean after he failed in his attempt to become an advertising man on New York's Madison Avenue. He returned to the United Kingdom in 1897 and opened two separate amusement parks; one adjacent to Euston Road in Great Yarmouth and another in Blackpool, opposite the tram terminus. The Great Yarmouth amusement park failed to generate much interest and so
Chennai Beach railway station building complex. A new reservation centre with ten reservation counters and a huge visitor's hall was built in 2013 from the general funds under the Railway Scheme. However, the centre has not yet been opened to public. In 2013, Chennai Corporation planned larger bus bays outside the station on Rajaji Salai after evicting about 41 shops along the pavement. The bus bays were being planned to hold at least three buses at a time, inside the existing bus stop. Chennai Beach station is one of the busiest railway stations in the city. Around 400 trips are operated from the station