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Hidden Secrets Of Blackpool's Pleasure Beach Express
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- čas přidán 6. 08. 2024
- We take a look at the hidden secrets and history of Blackpool Pleasure Beach.
This time we explore the Pleasure Beach Express, the parks Miniature Railway. It has been operating at the park since 1933, and suffered a major fire upon opening in 1934.
With behind the scenes access and rare and never before seen footage from the Pleasure Beach Archives.
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Ian Robertson
Alan Middleton
Andy Slater
Stephen Burton
Andy Hygate
Blackpool Pleasure Beach
Kris Ward
The Middleton Railway
Paul Beesley
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When I was a kid I remember a dwarf driving the train. I was fascinated that the driver was to scale with the train! He drove the the train for years.
There is a dwarf shortage..........( I'll get my coat)
His name was Ted waa quiet a celebrity, sadly he passed away.
I remember him too.
I remember him too. Shame he's passed away.
i remember him too. i always got took for a ride when a kid too on the train.
Simply delightful video, can still recall the smell of the diesel engine and grease as it chuffed around the park. Sadly a number of guests ignore this ride as being boring but give it a go and it's simplicity is unmatched. There is a smaller one at Southport.. Equally charming. Thanks for this.
Thanks Ian
Went on this amazing railway last weekend and thrilled to say the fog is back! I love the commitment of this park to embrace its history
Absolutely beautiful little railway
Thanks Justin
Darren must've been like a kid in a candy shop having pleasure beach to himself lol 👍
I sure was. 😉
Absolutely!
Another great film, Sir! I really enjoy the 'transition' shots, when you fade from a modern to a period still, or vice-versa; these really do bring the changes to life.
Awesome! Thank you!
It’s cool that the two gents were Ian and Alan, I’m sure former train spotters like myself had a little smile on their faces when you introduced them…
Ahh why? They familiar faces?
Ian Allen, was the guy who invented the trainspotters handbooks, which listed all locomotives etc for spotters to tick off…
What a great video. Pity they couldn’t theme or decorate the route better rather than leave the bare rollercoaster supports. The trees areas are a perfect example.
Another home run of a watch from AdventureMe. Darren, you are so lucky to spend a day there on a day closed to guests, lucky man.... As always great use of old photos to help with the back story of the Pleasure Beach Express. As a mechanic I found this video a real fun and enjoyable watch, thank you. And thanks to Ian, Alan and Darren for their time and work.....
Your enthusiasm is amazing, thanks for sharing.
Thanks mate. Glad you liked it
This was one of my first memories of a miniature railway when I was young, and it sparked a love, love the series too, very informative and very enjoyable as always
Thanks Stephen
Love a miniature railway especially if it has a history like this one. Looking forward to hearing more.
More to come!
Hi Darren!! Another great video, I love them. I love being able to see all the fade in’s you add, to compare. It’s great the places you get to go on adventures, and fun to see! Thank you :-)
The more I watch your channel the more I love it, love learning about history and behind the scenes 😍
Fascinating video Darren, thank you.
Thanks Joyce
great stuff once again thanks
Fantastic really interesting and enjoyable.
Great video and thanks to the workshop guys for sharing their knowledge and their work keeping these great trains running.
Thanks 👍
Quite a lovely journey through the past. Thank you for sharing with us. The transitions from past to present are quite impressive .
Thanks Linda. More coming soon.
Wow Darren what a great documentary. You are second to none. Absolutely brilliant. Thank you.
Thanks again!
These videos just make my Sunday now. Yet another cracking insight. Thanks so much👍
Thanks matey
Fascinating to see the old stock from Golden Acre park. Have read about it but good to see it in the flesh! Another interesting and informative part of the series, great work!!
Thanks Sara. Yes plenty of old Golden Acre relics there.
Love seeing behind the scenes so close to home
Excellent film and so interesting listening to the comments by all those involved.
I really enjoyed that , cheers, and a lot of questions answered there
Thanks John. Glad it helped.
Really interesting video, cheers for creating and sharing. Learnt some new pieces of history today. Can't wait for the next video. 😀👍
Thanks Daniel. More coming
Thank you for your hard work .
This is fascinating and interesting.
Thanks Martin
Brilliant video Darren. I still ride the PBE to this day as I love how it weaves under all the rides!
Me too. Always worth a relaxing trip.
Plus it's great to see that these fantastic and unique locomotives still being with us after they could have been forgotten about and scrapped after the fire
Thanks Stephen. Yes its good to see how well kept they are too
Another excellent video. So interesting and I love your transitions between the new - old
Thanks for watching
Fantastic video thanks. Lovely seeing those engines . Really loved that’s thanks. Please stay safe and take care
thanks linda
Another great and VERY informative video. We love P B/Blackpool! Been on the Express many times. A lot to look out for next time we ride it! 👍🙂
Thanks Brian
Excellent video, thank you so much. The 7 1/4" gauge coin operated railway you mention was built by Brian Howarth of Parkside Railways in Burnley. Geoffrey Thompson had a 7 1/4" gauge line around his home and regularly opened it to visiting engines from the national club. We visited once. I remember the sleepers were painted in random bright colours, and was told they were rescued from a ride at the pleasure beach.
Thanks Chris. Very interesting, i never knew that.
Nice one, thoroughly enjoying these Blackpool Pleasure Beach videos, holiday here every year and is a place close to my heart, Thanks so much for posting these, Great work 👌🏻
Thanks mate. More to come
Absolutely amazing thank you 🙏
You are so welcome
Loved this gem of a video, even though I have never been to black pool I have really enjoyed following this series.
You need to pay a visit.
One of my fav rides great to see it still bei g so well looked after
Yes and it's cared for very well.
Fantastic and very interesting video, thank you for posting.
Thanks Stuart. Glad you enjoyed it.
Good video, thank you
This is fantastic thank you
No problem 😊
Great video, very interesting!
Thanks Frank
Excellent as always.
Thanks 👍
This is a brilliant program Darren. There's a lot to this railway than one would ever know. Some of the locomotives and rolling stock coming form the Leeds area is very interesting. Hudswell Clarke were noted for building full size railway shunting locos, but I never knew that they did miniatures like these superb machines. Very enjoyable, and many thanks for producing this video.
Yes all made in Leeds.
Also Hunslet Loco that pulls the Snowdon Train
Much enjoyed this. Very informative
Thanks mate
Amazing as always
Thanks Chris
Yet another fantastic video Darren. The gentleman's sideburns are legendary too
Yeah they are. John McCririck vibes.
A great video and chat today. An amazing trip down memory lane today. Thanks for the video and chat today, Darren. See you on the next.
You bet!
Truly Enjoyed the video here of the locomotives at the pleasure Beach.
And Thank you for sharing such interesting facts about the pleasure Beach.
With Thanks fm Tom uk 🇬🇧 😊❤
Thanks Tom
Ian Allen. That's a name the conjures up memories for train spotters back in the day.
Someone else mentioned that. Why is he significant?
From the late 1940s Ian Allan (with an 'a') was the publisher of numerous trainspotters' books which were an invaluable source of information for all train enthusiasts and contained comprehensive and up-to-date lists of all rolling stock that were not available elsewhere. The publisher originally had a shop in Vauxhall Bridge Road, London SW1. The company extended its range of spotters' books to include buses (of particular interest to me!), lorries and aircraft. It was a family-run business. It was the first time that any UK publisher had catered for the transport enthusiast - a market that had been hitherto ignored; this is the reason the Ian Allan Publishing name is still held in high regard today although the company itself closed some years ago. They were probably the largest business specialising in transport subjects, publishing books, yearly 'annuals' and monthly magazines as well. For many years they were based close to the River Thames at Termnal House in Shepperton, Middlesex.
Informative and interesting video thanks ......always wondered where Seth had disappeared to.
Absolutely love behind the scene vlogs Darren of the Pleasure Beach,I can still remember our family days out from Huddersfield as a kid in the late 70's early 80's,one of my good memories was the Tom Sawyer raft ride which was I'm sure was around the area you filmed on this vlog. Hopefully for me it's something you can look into maybe in the future.
Yes Tom Sawyer was at the part where I was talking about the forth bridge. Just next to the Big Dipper. It was where ICON currently resides.
I'm born and raised in Blackpool, and have always enjoyed the Pleasure Beach Express, so it was interesting to see inside the maintenance shed, I always thought it was just full of other passenger carriages or freight carriages they never used. Shame the maintenance train was out for repair, always wanted to see it. Interesting video either way!
THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES I REMEMBER IT WELL
Awesome video buddy, keep the BPB vids coming! 👍👍
More to come!
Really interesting video. All the years I have been to Blackpool, never knew this existed. Will have to visit next year. Keep up the good work very interesting videos
Glad you enjoyed it
Great vlog and history series dude
Glad you enjoyed
I'm blackpool born and bred, I've been the Pleasure Beach so many times, and I've never seen the station to those trains, I couldn't even tell you where they are.
I'm gonna have to go look now 😍
Yes go and check it out
wow lovely to see such lovely models trains
The Railway, and the Monorail, were the two rides I would always ride, whenever I went to BPB. Was sad when the Monorail was scrapped, but still find it interesting that the Monorail Track was kept because its used to route power cables around the park still.
Yes most of it is still there. I always rode both too.
Really enjoyed that. Nice one 👍
Thanks 👍
Very interesting Darren, I didn't even know this railway existed! Great work as always! 😊
Many thanks!
Fab Video thanks for sharing.
Thanks Jackie
Alan looks like a wise man he knows is stuff one of the original
never new much about the railway .... ! AWSOME
Thanks David
Very interesting history of the ride
Thanks Gaz
Very interesting and a lot of, History did not know all this.
Thanks Richard
Thank you for your hard work and your time 👌🏼👌🏼
Alan is quite a character and knowledgeable
I’m not really a train person but the little engines are cute
Me and mrs 237 are going to Blackpool this Saturday, I’m intrigued by central pier and the iron it’s made from, I’ll put it on my channel thingy
Thanks bud
Great video!
Really enjoyed your historic research of this ride, thank you for your efforts.
Look forward to your next vid.
P.S. hello there Alan, bit smaller than our dock loco's hey.
Thanks mate
This is so cool.
Brilliant your videos just get better 😊👍
Thanks Steve
I remember going to the pleasure beach, first memory must be 60+ years ago, and watching with excitement the trains. It was from an age when youngsters wanted to be train divers. Anyways enough reminiscing, great video.
Glad you enjoyed it
That`s amazing, I have dropped folk off at the Pleasure Beach many times over the years but I never realised just how big the place was. It looks about the size of a football pitch from where I drop off and I never even thought about a miniature railway, nice.
Thanks. Yes its bigger than you think.
Brilliant loved this 👍
Thanks Jenny
What a wonderful knowledgeable gentle man Alan was 😊
He was and very passionate about it too.
great vid darren would love to see more of the hudswell clarke works pics
More to come!
A really good video, that V-Skip you saw isn't actually a replica, it's a real original wagon, very common on lots of industrial railways around the world.
Thanks Kris
Coolbeens. Really enjoyed all the Blackpool vids
Thanks Scott
Even though I live in Meriden, Kansas I enjoy your videos. I love your narration and find it very educational.
Thanks Jerry. Hope it makes sense to you not knowing the context.
A while back, someone commented on how they just let your videos play, sometimes falling asleep (or something like that 🙂) and you had replied that you hoped you weren't boring him.
I have to say, I agree with that person's comment. But it has nothing to do with boring, it has to do with comfort.
As I clicked to watch your video today, a feeling came over me kind of like, I'm home! After a hectic day, what comfort your video gave me.
Thank you for all you do 💜
Thanks mate. What a nice thing to read.
Lovely little engines it’s good to see the passion the engineers still have for them 😎
Thanks David, yes they were very passionate about it.
Hi,
I've just come across your channel and I absolutely love the videos of Blackpool Pleasure Beach. Your voice and commentary are so welcoming, and more importantly, extremely professional.
I live 45 minutes away from Blackpool, and my friends and I used to visit every weekend. On the funfair, we had such incredible times and you brought all the memories flooding back to me.
Thank you so much!
New subscriber!
Thanks mate. Welcome aboard. Lots of Blackpool stuff on my channel, and plenty more to come.
@@AdventureMe , great! X
God I love these... fascinating doesn't even cover it. Each video has me riveted and is highly enjoyable 😃👍👋
Glad you like them!
another great video
Thanks Tom
Great stuff very interesting 👍
Thanks Keith
Great video ,i can remember the dwarf train driver great bloke
He was a character
A very enjoyable video, the Pleasure Beach Express was my favourite ride and I never forgave "The Big One" for forcing it's temporary (but I think lengthy) closure. Also speaking as a train guy, that "third rail" is called a Check Rail ;)
Thanks mate. I only learned that this week.
Great video 👍
Thanks 👍
Really fascinating, love this. Keep them coming. You should have a look round Dreamland in Margate, not as good but interesting all the same.
Thanks John. I am planning on that one day.
I'll hopefully be there in October again. Cannot wait.
I'll be back soon for sure.
Wow very interesting 🤩
Thanks Sue
Thanks!
Thanks Dave
Superb
Thanks 🤗
Hi Darren, fascinating content,....as usual 👍👍👍 now I guess Alun with those mutton chop whiskers probably has a nice earner in period drama recreations 😎 Cheers DougT in Mancs
Thanks 👍
Very nice video
Thanks Ronnie
Very interesting 👍🏻
Thanks Kevin
Really interesting 👍
Thanks mate
Great video. Hope you’re going to cover Golden Acre Park history one day.
That's the plan!
I didn't know golden acre park HAD a miniature railway, I'll have to research that.
Bloomin' clown at the end. Gives me shivers everytime 😂 #childhoodtrauma
And at the start lol. He always gets in there.
Great video as always.
Just like to point out the third rail mentioned.
It's known as a check rail and it's purpose is; It prevents wheel climb around tight curves on the higher rail, holding the train wheels within gauge and to prevent derailment.
Doesn't help prevent wear on rails.
Thanks mate
Great video glad still got this but its pity the monorail is no more that used to be great for a trip round the park.
Totally agree