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
Tales from Pleasure Beach episode for "The Guardian", said "Tales from Pleasure Beach" was "nicely shot, well acted and refreshingly frank in its portrayal of alcopop-swilling sexual manners", however she found it "rattling through a series of stock tableaux that juddered perceptively under the weight of their agony aunt morality". Tales from Pleasure Beach Tales from Pleasure Beach is a British television drama series first broadcast on BBC Two between 2 and 16 August 2001. Written by Welsh playwright Roger Williams, the three episodes each feature a self-contained story against the backdrop of a seaside amusement park. The series received a BAFTA Awards nomination