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
Beach railway station Beach railway station Beach railway station was a railway station in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England, built in 1931. The station was an intermediate station on Scarborough North Bay Railway, a miniature railway built to carry tourists from Peasholm Park to . Although the station was built in 1931, it was not used by passengers until the late 1980s/early 1990s, when it was used as a temporary terminus during the closure of Scalby Mills, due to rebuilding work in conjunction with Scarborough Sealife Centre. The station is now closed again, although the platforms are still extant. Service trains regularly wait on