The Blackpool Pleasure Beach Ghost Train is undergoing a big refurbishment over winter as new scenes and maintenance work are ongoing throughout this famous Blackpool dark ride.
It has been known for a while that both Ghost Train and River Caves would be getting some investment over the closed season at Blackpool Pleasure Beach.
This was confirmed during a Blackpool Pleasure Beach closed-season update video which showed new figures being worked on ready to go inside the popular spooky attraction.
Most recently Blackpool Gazette were invited to the park to film certain areas and go behind the scenes of the art department who are working tirelessly to craft new figures and set piece props for the new scenes that are being added to this historic ride.
In the video, we see scaffolding around the facade of Ghost Train in addition to new creature concept art designs and work on a new animatronic underway.
It’s great to see the work that goes into preserving and improving the classic rides at Blackpool Pleasure Beach, I hope they’ve added multiple new scenes and not just added a few props here and there and called it a day.
There were some new audio and scenes added just for Journey to Hell, the park’s Halloween event back in 2023 but they felt very temporary like placeholders for future scenes.
On March 16th Blackpool Pleasure Beach Fan Club has a tour of the Ghost Train to kick-start their first fan club event of the season.
Having a behind-the-scenes tour of this classic attraction is a great way for them to show off all the work they have done behind the scenes over the winter period and it’s a great opportunity for fans to walk through the first ride of its kind.
Yes, that’s correct. Before the ride opened at Blackpool there was no other dark ride in the world that was called a ‘Ghost Train’ making Blackpool Pleasure Beach the proud owner of the world’s first-ever Ghost Train and it’s still one of the best you’ll find anywhere in the world for that classic old school dark ride feel.
I want to express a huge thank you to Lucinda Herbert of the Blackpool Gazette for allowing us to use the images in this article.
