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
Bishopstone Beach Halt railway station holiday passengers. The first name of the station was Bishopstone. It was closed in 1938 when a new Bishopstone station was built to the east, then reopened in 1939 as Bishopstone Beach Halt. The down platform remains intact with no track running through it. The edge stones on the up platform have been removed, but the concrete support of the station sign is still in place. The station can no longer be visited by the public. Bishopstone Beach Halt railway station Bishopstone Beach Halt was a railway station in East Sussex, England that was opened on 1 June 1864 and