Remembering The Blackpool Pleasure Beach Monorail
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ต.ค. 2024
- In 1966 Blackpool Pleasure Beach opened the second commercial monorail in the United Kingdom. This impressive attraction took guests all across the park and offered amazing views across the Pleasure Beach and Blackpool Sea Front. In this video I take a look back on the history of this Blackpool Pleasure Beach attraction along with sharing my favourite moments and memories from one of my most missed rides at the park!
This video is part of our Remembering Rides series here on Theme Park Worldwide. In this series of videos I'll be talking all about a variety of rides, attractions and theme parks that are no longer with us. I'll also be looking into the history of these attractions along with sharing my favourite memories!
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I always feel like rides like this are criminally underrated. I love being able to just sit down and have a relaxing ride around the parks.... it’s why I love the PB Express so much. I miss BPBs monorail loads.
These type of rides are very important to deliver the full package of a park
I loved the monorail as well, a lot of good memories!
It was fantastic. I was gutted when it closed!
While y'all sitting at home, allow me to tell you about some of the parks me and my friend encountered in our Eastren Europe park trip, this time, we headed from Poland to Slovakia:
'Tatrabob Tatranska Lomnica':
At the Solvakian Tatrabob Tatranska Lomnica we find the alpine coaster Tatrabob . This is a very special alpine coaster because it was not built by Wiegand for a change , but by the French company Techfun . It was a lot of fun to do a completely different type of alpine coaster and there were quite some nice parts in the course where the airtime jump was the most memorable. The trail has a length of 650 meters and was built in 2004.
'Fun Park Žiarce':
At Fun Park Žiarce we find a monorail alpine coaster. It has the name Bobová dráha and was built in 2007 by the Austrian manufacturer Brandauer . The course had a considerable length of 930 meters and we really enjoyed being able to do another Brandauer after a long time . These give a completely different ride than a classic alpine coaster from Wiegand.
Water Park bonus - 'Tatralandia':
Tatralandia is a large water park in Slovakia. It has a very large outdoor area with multiple slide towers, but there is also an indoor area with a slide tower. You can also enjoy the wellness facilities, the restaurant or the cocktail bar in the indoor area. A lot of slides are built around the hill on which the water park is built. So they make full use of the site. There are several large slides such as a half pipe and a large tire slide with some sort of ramp. There was also a bath with very warm water of around 40 degrees.
Just bought a carriage from the monorail from Blackpool Pleasure Beach 😊
That’s awesome!
Love the monorail, still get a little tear seeing parts of the rail just left to rot.
And yes the monorail did interact with the fun house. It went through the building behind the large wooden slide in the middle, and I believe there was a station in there too.
I remember my mum telling me in 1991 that there was a fire at the gun house, I was 8 and cried for days.
Great info and insight as always, 🤞the season starts and we have fun. 👍
the original station was a bove the gents toilet block then they moved the track arounf d the casino which had a tempary station thses can be seen on old arcived footsage of the pleasure beach
Interesting i’am going off my 6-7 year old memory, so may not remember it probably. Think I may have to find them videos 👍
Fantastic memories!
@@ThemeParkWorldwide so true, I remember the monorail passing through the buildings where the casino was, as it ran alongside carpeted flooring, then through the funhouse, I was very young when I went on that though, must have been late 70's :)
Brian H is correct. Before being routed around the Casino, it used to go the other side of Noah's Ark, turn left in front of the Reel (now Globe Theatre) and then turn right into the rectangular building that adjoins the Globe, above the toilets. We had to climb steps to get into the station. That was North Station. The one in front of Gold Mine was Central. I could be wrong but I think South was added later.
Good video, i have a recording from the opening of seaside special 1975 shows the monorail coming round the big wheels used to have and going behind noahs ark presume was original track layout.
That’s awesome!
Yes, I remember going through the fun house whilst riding it.
basically the only reason why the monorail is still there after a decade is because different utility it can hide within the old track
I loved that man holding up the rail. Iconic
Have you seen the couple episode documentary all about pleasure beach? It aired a few years after Big One Opens.
JOHN, THATS A NEW MACHINE! ITS NOT THAT RACETRACK WHATEVER YOU CALL IT!"
cableway was higher then the monorail so imagine the veiw you could have got now for it
and yeah the monorail track housed some bits for the park if im not mistaken
Used to absolutely love the monorail when I was a kid! Mum was never big on rides so it was one of the few she'd come on with me
Great video I went on the monorail back in the early 80s or late 70s and remember it going through the fun house I need a day at the pleasure beach. It’s been about 12 years since I last went
Always remember it going through the fun house, back in the 70s n 80s.
I remember this in the 90s waving to the people on the monorail just before I went down the big slide And just before the fun house burned down
They should rebuild it, such a good addition to the skyline :/. Would love to see it pass through the rides
It was such a great ride
funshine land was first in the late 70s with mr funshine playing an organ in one of the rides i can still here him playing abbas dancing queen on the fake wurlitzer before beaver creak and nikolodeon land didnt the monorail go through an arcade near the noahs ark sheer joy and such a shame its gone
Another really good video, So many memories with that monorail shame it is gone :-(
Could you please do other remembering videos for past rides/attraction in general before you were born??
+ not just your memories of rides!
Hopefully you can plan your Futuroscope + Legoland Billund trip later this year :-)
Thanks for your suggestions
Shawn please do a remembering video for Safari Skyway,Bubbleworks,Runaway Train,Beanoland,Toadies Crazy Cars and the Blue And White Carousel all at Chessington. Brier Rabbits Train at Oakwood. The Flume at Alton Towers. World Chorus at Disneyland Paris. All of these lost European rides are missed by me as my family and I experienced them at least once.
They’ll be many more on the way!
@@ThemeParkWorldwide do you like my suggestions?
5:59 I swear that's my brother and me in that red car
Used to go to Blackpool Pleasure Beach every year or 2 while it was the Scottish summer holidays (we had 2 weeks before it got heaving in the park) and being on the monorail. Freaked out as a 5 year old when it went through the fun house as this was my first monorail experience. Wish they brought it back, such a loss!
It was such a great ride!
Another great video as always Shawn mate 👍🏻
Thank you
@@ThemeParkWorldwide you’re welcome 😊 mate anytime
Shame it's not still open... I never got to go on it.
Plus it, and bring it back I say! Look at the success of People Mover! 😉👌🏼 Rides like this are timeless! O.O.K 💙👌🏼
The monorail used to go right into the funhouse - it ran along the top of the back wall so you could see everything going on in there! (The funhouse was open plan, like a huge hall with a cental slide right in the middle).
I remember the fun house. And come to think of it now yes the train at the back of it. Had some great times in there on that spinning part of the floor trying to hold on👍👍
As a local lad in the late 70s maybe early 80s we would buy a ticket for the monorail because it was cheap, then allegedly we would jump out at the funhouse. All good fun. And around 84/85 I was working at a scaffolding company as a labourer and we scaffold the giant holding up the rail. Thanks for the upload good memories.
yes i remember that now ,,, the huge clown faces tilting left and right and the window with the little twirling dolls very small world , and of course the laughing clown
@@billy007rodaway Loved the Fun House in my smelly grey socks, was the best fun in Blackpool.
Use to be 3 stations, the 2 you mentioned and 1 at the casino building
When Shawn mentioned the first 2 stations I was convinced that there was another in the casino building. I am sure that as a kid (1970's) we used to get on and off at the casino station. Does any body else remember there being this 3rd station?
I never got to use this one unfortunately!
@@ThemeParkWorldwide it got removed years if not at least a decade before the one above the old coasters restaurant
always loved the pleasure beach everytime i went in 21 now and still love it and only just got back from a trip there and loved every second of it and my family have actually managed to purchase one of the old monorail carriages ☺️
I like this remembering theme of vlogg 👍. Nostalgia 😊. Maybe a Loggers Leap one if there's enough interest? My memories of that in the early 90s are some of my happiest memories ever 😊👍.
Thanks for your suggestion
A big blue monorail being built on top of another monorail? 😜
Always remember the mad hatter
The monorail was no longer needed, because they built a new monorail, designed by Arrows, sponsored originally by Pepi Max, and costing 13 million!!!!.
In the 1970s my Mum used to collect me from school and we’d park up on the promenade and guess which monorail train it would be that day. There was no Ocean Boulevard in those days so parking there gave you great views of the Big Dipper, Log Flume and Monorail.
The fully enclosed train was Orange, the two semi-enclosed were green and the fully open one was grey. We used to guess whether it would be the Green, Orange or Grey! 😂
I remember the second station was near the Casino but the track didn’t loop round the building in those days. And the monorail went through the funhouse so you got to see people having fun in there as you passed through.
Love this! Thanks for sharing all of this!
I was expecting a video about the Big One!
Do you remember when the grand prix cars ran off petrol?
I do indeed!
I miss the monorail, it was great to have a sit down and a ride around the Pleasure Beach during a long day of riding everything else there. A nice little rest and good views. Genuinely sad it was removed :(
I clicked on this thinking it was a video about the Big One ha ha!
Love this! The actual monorail this time!
Showing my age a bit but I remember the original north station was the building behind the casino which got turned into the hardluck bear show. You left there and never went onto the carpark but round and through the fun house, the return passed closer to noahs ark and the reel . They moved the station to the casino building first floor and was not the same. I've never been able to find a photo of the original station.
Agree with you Shawn the interactions between the other rides and monorail were fantastic especially the fun house.
Thanks for sharing this!
The Fun House, my favourite amusement in Blackpool. If only it was still here today and have several hours of brown or grey stockingfeet fun like I did in the 1980s.
Slighly gutted it closed. I haven't been since 2011 and its shocking how a few old favourites have moved on.
The boring bit was very different going back a few years.As you went round the casino building you could see various flat rides that changed quite a bit over the years, that first car park had the rainbow in then you would go right over the water drop of the water chute then into the funhouse.You were right at the top back of the funhouse just behind the big drop slide.I miss it alot too :(
It was certainly a great ride to just have a relax on for a while!
I do miss this monorail :( I remember going on it for the first time when i first went to the Pleasure Beach in 2008
I’ve got some film of it from when I was a kid in 1979,they where still building the revolution
I know this is an old vlog but I've only just seen it shawn, I remember the pony rides you could look at where the revolution is now
Lucky timing seen the monorail, the express train and the big one whoosh through on that corner drop, the train peeped too, memories.
Omg this is such a great video Shawn. Brings back so many happy memories of being a kid. 9:40 yes the monorail went through and inside the back of the fun house and you could look down and see and hear people in there. After fun house went, the maintenance bay was more visible when riding past. Such a great ride at BP and definitely missed ! Thankyou so much for this wonderful full ride through !
In the Fun House you were in your stockingfeet, only went there four times. I remember the monorail going through the back behind the giant slide. Don't know why it was not rebuilt after it was destroyed by fire in the 1990s.
Just for anyone who doesn’t know
Mono means one
Rail means rail
🙏
we used to really enjoy the monorail x thanks for sharing - we enjoyed watching x
The monorail was cool. I guess it was a pain to maintain , I see lots of the track is still there as expensive to remove it
And used to to go past a building with the indoor Ball pool back when I was a Kid
There was a station when it when around casino build and has some more ride inside. This was back in the 80s
Too young to remember it but as I’ve said before I love monorails so would love to see one back
Best Memory of the Monorail was traveling alongside the Pepsimax Big one back in the day and i remember the THE big one trains coming flying past on the first hill, I knew it was coming but it still managed to scare the daylights out of me. The Pleasure Beach blackpool Monorail shall never be forgotten.
Thanks for sharing your memories!
Although I’m to young to have rode the monorail I bet it would have been awsome
There used to be a monorail station in the Casino building
Yes! I remember exactly what you said one very hot blue sky day and the sea breeze hitting us, thanks for the memories!
It was wonderful! Thanks for watching!
This takes me back..!
Great to hear a lot of information about it!
The fact that you can still see exactly where it went around the park says something about how Blackpool has a very long history.. and maintains it!
Thanks for watching!
I wish the monorail 🚝 was open again.
I haven't been to the PB since they changed the ticketing system over to the current wristband system. Didn't know the monorail had gone! It was part of my childhood living in Blackpool and I remember all 4 of the trains. A trip to the PB wasn't complete without a full circuit.
It was a great ride!
Cool
The monorail used to have stations at the Casino building and also in the Main Carpark above the toilets and this station later became the Hardluck Bears Show.
Thanks for sharing!
My friend I live by curiously through you at going to all these amusement parks that I don't or can't get a chance to go to thank you for this
Thank you for watching!
i have great memories of the monorail especially riding on wow weekends in feb my god was it cold on the seafront section blowing off the sea you couldn't wait to get round the casino building for some shelter.
It was indeed!
Hey Sean? I was just wondering why you have not invested in a drone so you can get some good footage of parks from the air? I think it would add a lot to your content. Especially for parks that do not allow onride recording. You could do it from the parking lot.
Thanks for your suggestion. Unfortunately there’s many rules in place about drones, especially when it comes to flying them near or over theme parks!
I loved the monorail at Blackpool Pleasure Beach! It's a very popular ride!
There used to be a station on the first floor of the rotunda making three stations in the late 60s/ early 70s
BPB has lost lots of brilliant family rides. My absolute favourite was the turtle chase? Would love a video on that! Always loved the monorail too though 😊
That was awesome!
We loved this ride when the girls were toddlers.....when they got older and didn’t want to go on I went on myself whilst they were away on something else with daddy lol, we used to sneak snacks on, sat up the back, and ate them on the way round when we thought the driver wasn’t looking 😯xxx
It was a great ride to just have a chill on!
Rather than doing a remembering magic mountain you should do the whole of beaver creek. In my opinion it was better than Nickelodeon land
It was a fantastic family area!
Themepark worldwide when will you make video of history of drayton manor like the rides which got replaced from the past such as sombrero or the first drayton manor ride like the boat ride and how drayton manor change.
They’ll be more videos on the way!
Mono = One
Rail = Rail
I never knew this existed 👍🚂
We always got a video of our ride on the monorail every year lol husband used to moan not again takes up too much space on the tape! 😂xxx
It was such a long ride!
Great memories.. are you going to ride the new ride on the carnivale cruise ship Shaun??
I’d love to experience it at some point!
Blackpool pleasure Beach will never not sound like a pirate themed nudist beach
Oh dear!
What a shame i never got to experience this. Transport rides seem to be less popular now remember when drayton manor had there chair lift ?
Unfortunately so! I remember that very well and used to love it!
I really really love this youtube channel deserve a more like,views and subcribevers
Thank you
Could you do a remembering video on magic mountain?
I loved Magic Mountain!
Oh I loved the Monorail, it’s such a miss
It was fantastic wasn’t it!
I miss this ride so much, did it not also go over Vikingar 🤔 another awesome ride that i miss. Great vid 👌
I did indeed!
Gutted my parents never took me on this, ill have to make do with the pleasure beach express
It was such a great ride!
I was upset when I found out it shut because I wanted to ride it. Wish it was still there
It’s a shame that it closed as it was a great way to view the park from above!
Res in Peace. :(
Hello! This vid was sick do u have any tips on being a TH-cam?
It’s all about creating informative and regular content!
I love your videos and I’m only 12 and I loved going on it when I was like 5😃
Thanks for watching!
This and the Mouse are the two rides I'm most upset that I never got the chance to experience. I wish both of them could have been saved, especially as neither of them have been replaced with anything. What a pity.
What BS lol. Sounds like it was a fun ride. I've heard it was amazing from the people that got to experience it.
LMAO.
there was also a station in the casino building. , and im sure there was one in the funhouse
There was indeed. I never got to ride it like this though unfortunately!
1ST! I Love your vids
Thanks for watching!
going past the engineering shed in the 90s/early 00s and seeing the fully covered pepsi monorail trains that you never saw operating.
Black pool has the cars for sale on their site, I was tempted to buy one
They do indeed. I wish I had the space!
The monorail went through the fun house passing over the massive slide were people could see people going down the slide brilliant
I liked this
I used to love the World Of Toys Ride (believe it was called Magic Mountian) as a child. Still believe it was one of their best dark rides
It was fantastic!
@@ThemeParkWorldwide The sound track is super catchy
I'm sure back in the 80s it used to go through the fun house. Was great as a kid. Fond memories of Blackpool pleasure beach. My kids and I love it to this day
Since I’m a USA resident, I never got a chance to ride it back in 2012, since I was really young back then, heard it brought some memories!
I was sad
The bulldosers have finaly gone into Camalot near me mate such a shame , loved the monorail as a kid but was frightened of the giant as my dad told me he came alive at night lol , top vids
Such a shame to hear however I’d rather it be something else rather than in ruin!
@@ThemeParkWorldwide Yes your right there , hats off to Southport for not scrapping the old Gallion ride i used to love that and a few cars from the dragon flyer and the old big wheel , RIP Camalot
what do you think of iron gwazi
It looks epic!
The best part of the monorail was when it went inside the funhouse, the funhouse was my favourite as a kid
You had to take your shoes off in the Funhouse. Sadly destroyed by fire and not rebuilt. The monorail went behind the giant slide.
I was too scared to go on those slide, the only time I did I got a friction burn on my arm
I remember it well and when it was sponsored by M&M’s. I also remember when the park had the cable car that took you from one side of the park to the other. That was great too. I have photos of that..with Valhalla being built in the background.
Great video Shaun , it takes me right back this we loved the monorail. Such a shame it’s gone . Thanks for filming it too .
Maybe upload the full ride , I’d love to see that 🧱👍🏼👌🏼
Thanks did watching! The full on ride video can also be seen on the channel!
@@ThemeParkWorldwide cool thanks 🧱👍🏽
I feel like pleasure beach really needs one more modern coaster like icon in my opinion. And I might be showing my age here but I really don’t remember a monorail 🚝 in Blackpool pleasure beach 🏖 never really went as a kid only started going in my teens and it wasn’t there
Can u do the Chessington monorail
Great suggestion!
Loved it also loved the crazy golf course next to the avalanche if anyone remembers that...
I miss these so much I loved it every time I went to Blackpool iv even bin on the Pepsi max monorail version