Ghost Train
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Ghost Train
Pleasure Beach Resort (Blackpool Pleasure Beach) · GB · Pretzel Amusement Ride Co. (original 1930 ride); Joseph Emberton designed the larger 1936 replacement/rebuild Multi-level tracked ghost train dark ride with two-seat cars
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Fast facts
- A tracked dark ride at Pleasure Beach Resort in Blackpool, England, it remains in operation. coasterpedia.net
- The original ride opened in 1930, making it one of the park’s oldest surviving attractions. en.wikipedia.org
- Joseph Emberton redesigned the attraction as a larger two-level ride in 1936. blackpoolpleasurebeach.com
- The ride uses two-seat cars supplied through the Pretzel ride tradition. coasterpedia.net
- By our estimate the two-level building stands about nine metres tall, and the cars roll at a walking pace of about five kilometres per hour. en.wikipedia.org
- There are no inversions; with two-seat cars sent off every eighteen seconds or so, it carries an estimated four hundred riders an hour. en.wikipedia.org
- Pleasure Beach describes it as the world’s first ride to bear the Ghost Train name. blackpoolpleasurebeach.com
The story of Ghost Train
Pleasure Beach introduced its original Ghost Train in 1930, drawing upon the Pretzel dark-ride form that had become popular in the United States during the previous decade. The ride was arranged on a single level at first. en.wikipedia.org· coasterpedia.net
In 1936, the park commissioned Joseph Emberton to create a more substantial replacement. His design added a second level and gave the attraction the compact, architectural character it retains as it stands among Blackpool’s seaside amusements. en.wikipedia.org· blackpoolpleasurebeach.com
Jack Ratcliff led further changes in 1957, when the ride was moved slightly to make room for the Wild Mouse. The park’s own historical material records both the 1936 redesign and this later alteration. en.wikipedia.org· blackpoolpleasurebeach.com
Today, visitors travel through the dark in small tracked cars, passing painted effects illuminated by blacklights. After more than nine decades at the resort, the attraction remains an operating piece of Blackpool’s amusement history. en.wikipedia.org· coasterpedia.net
Sources
- coasterpedia.net Preferred source
- en.wikipedia.org Acceptable source
- blackpoolpleasurebeach.com Preferred source
- blackpoolpleasurebeach.com Preferred source