Pleasure Beach Express Pleasure Beach Express Blackpool Pleasure Beach Express is a narrow gauge railway, built in 1933 as a tourist attraction at Pleasure Beach Blackpool, Lancashire. The main station was built in 1933, but was destroyed by fire in 1934. Redesigned by architect Joseph Emberton and rebuilt in 1935, it was replaced in 1970 by the present Victorian style building. The line has two stations, Pleasure Beach Express station and Star Halt. The latter is now a request stop. The train now runs in the wrong direction to how it used to the animal statues and figures are all facing the wrong
Pleasure Beach private boats from the mainland. This severely limited access and allowed nature to be undisturbed. As late as December 2008, Bridgeport considered a ferry service to relink the beach with the city, but this was rejected due to parking considerations and the need for a Coast Guard registered captain. As of June, 2014, Pleasure Beach has re-opened. From the city of Bridgeport, CT's website: "The peninsula will be accessible seven days a week via free water taxi, which will pick beach goers up at the fishing pier located on Seaview Avenue near its intersection with Central Avenue. "Two water taxis