Valhalla (Blackpool Pleasure Beach) Valhalla (Blackpool Pleasure Beach) Valhalla is a large indoor dark ride at Pleasure Beach Blackpool in Lancashire, England. Opened on 14 June 2000 at a cost of £15 million (equivalent to around £24 million in 2017), it is one of the most expensive water rides ever to be built and is the longest indoor dark ride in the world. Both a dark ride and a water ride, Valhalla uses special effects which incorporate fire, water and snow. Valhalla replaced the Fun House, (which burned down in 1991 in its place); Valhalla opened in 2000. Conceived by former park owner Geoffrey
Ardrossan South Beach railway station Ardrossan South Beach railway station Ardrossan South Beach railway station is one of three in the town of Ardrossan, North Ayrshire, Scotland. The station is managed by Abellio ScotRail and is on the Ayrshire Coast Line. The station was opened on 1 January 1883 by the Glasgow and South Western Railway, during the extension of the former Ardrossan Railway to Largs. It became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The station then passed on to the Scottish Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. When sectorisation was introduced in the 1980s, the