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 Pleasure Beach Pleasure Beach is the Bridgeport portion of a Connecticut barrier beach that extends 2-1/2 miles westerly from Point No Point (the portion in the adjoining town of Stratford is known as Long Beach). Prior to June, 2014, when Pleasure Beach re-opened, the area was Connecticut's largest and most recent ghost town and abandoned recently in the late 1990s after a fire on the bridge connecting it to the mainland. It is surrounded on three sides by water (Lewis Gut to the north, Bridgeport Harbor to the west, and Long Island Sound to the south). From 1892 until 1958,