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
Cooden Beach railway station Cooden Beach railway station Cooden Beach serves Cooden at the western end of Bexhill in East Sussex. It is on the East Coastway Line, and train services are provided by Southern. The station was first opened on 11 September 1905 as "Cooden Golf Halt" to serve a growing area of new, mainly high quality, housing located close to the beach (hence its later name). By 1922, the name had been simplified to "Cooden Halt". With the growing housing development of the 1930s and the electrification of the line a new enlarged station was built adopting its present name of "Cooden