I was once fortunate enough to get stuck on this ride. The ride stopped as we were on the second upstairs balcony. This was a great experience as the guys came to get each of us off the cars and we got a very interesting walk through the ride with all the lights on.
I think the most frightening thing of this is the admission price Blackpool Pleasure Beach now charges you just to go inside. Bring back the good old days when you could just walk into the park and pick and choose what rides - if any - you actually wanted to go on.
This is one of the move impressive rides of this type that I’ve seen. I love the way it has several times where you are outside and then brought back in, as well as the extended length.
With things like the car designs, drop and the spinning tunnels, you can certainly see the influence for the _Rollercoaster Tycoon_ 1 and 2 version of the Ghost Train!
Thanks for not talking at all during the ride. Hate it when people make comments, it spoils the experience. What a classic dark ride!! Wish they had one of these at my local park, I can't ride coasters anymore because of heart issues.
It reminds me of the old long time gone now (1967 - 1998) "Tren Fantasma" from Montjuic Park in Barcelona Spain. What made it unique and special is that it was built inside a mountain using the cuba war tunnels already digged in 1898 that connected the city and the castle.....so sad it is long gone now....
One of my fave ghost trains in the whole UK. So many stories on this being Haunted, i remember watching the team from Most Haunted doing an investigation here. Nice pov cheers for this Scott
This brings back memories.These were compact rides that you just got what seemed a long ride.The Goldmine and Alice in wonderland all were great fun and clever engineering.
I remember a "scary" ride at Playland, a wonderful old-fashioned amusement park near the city of Rye, on Long Island Sound, New York. This video brought back memories of my childhood fun there. Thanks for posting the video!
This brings back memories, used to be my favourite ride when my grandad took me to the Pleasure Beach in the 70’s. He used to call the little roller coaster bit the “switchback”. Sad to see my favourite bit isn’t there any more… the yellow rotating tunnel that used to make you feel like you were falling out of the car. I think that was where the London Underground section is now.
I have been on this ride many times both as man and boy, but never on my own, lol. Personally I think its the best ghost train in the country and can't wait to go on it again when its fully back up to speed.
1:49 When I went on that, the doors opened and I shouted “MASTER” at the Satan wolf thing-cheered some of the older kids up, the little ones had no idea tho😂
I had my eyes closed the entire time but I opened my eyes just once at that point and as it came at me I screamed so loud, I had an actual heart attack. Now looking at it in the video I think "The hell? That's what scared me so bad?" 😂😂
On my last visit the train late in the ghost train was out but the sound was working, this time it's the other way around where the light is working but the sound is out🤦♂️😕 And the picture frame with the woman and it's out as well.
Upon watching this POV I have learned that the car is in fact, not supposed to tip over at the sharp right after the drop outside like it did for me! Had to push against the wall to get it back on all fours! :D
Wow, quite a long ride. The tunnel at the end (the tube station bit) used to be a rotating spiral which felt like you were tipping up and I seem to remember skeletons cycling round in a circle on bicycles. Im going back 40 years.
I really like the ghost Train and it's probably one of the best in the UK. I haven't done it since it's refurbishment but I'm looking forward to doing it. Do you think it'll be open this season along with the other dark rides like W&G and River Caves?
Love this ride. One of the scariest things about it when I used to ride as a kid was knowing there was a gigantic skeleton on the roof above my head the whole time! The giant skeleton's mouth used to open and close mechanically. Does it still do that?
Me and my grandad went on a ghost train at a moving circus in Llandudno, Wales, and the layout was mostly the same, except for that after the second balcony, you went down a steep drop into the station. When we went down that hill, it went stupidly fast, and a cardboard cutout moved to the side and we got sprayed with very watery foam. When we came off, it was also tipping it down.
Am I right in thinking they changed the underground tunnel? Didn't it used to twist and spin? I haven't been on it since I was 12 though so 20 years ago pretty much
There are some changes in this I love and some I don't, the make over with the start and end I love but that middle bit with gargoyle and shivering skeleton, I thought it was temporally there while they fixed the iron maiden, I love this ride but Id definitely throw some more modern tech in like projections. I think a little trip to Transworld is in order this Halloween, and give me back my dragon entrance, XD
We used to have rides just like that at the Jersey shore on the boardwalk when I was a kid.. the scariest part about those rides as an adult is that you're by yourself and you never know if you're going to get stuck in there lol
When I was a kid in the mid 80's I went on a school trip to the seaside somewhere in Kent and we went to a great amusement park that had a ghost train that was very similar in layout to this one. I've always wondered where it was a forgot the name of the town it was in, does anyone have any ideas where it might have been? I don't think it was Margate (though I could be wrong), I think it was somewhere else on the Kent coast, could it have been Dymchurch perhaps?
I rode the PB ghost train back in the late 70s,80s and 90s. Been on it since on random visits since 2000 and 2005. Sadly for me the modern replacements of many of the former moving exhibits is very disappointing. The girl in the coffin,giant spider,The witch,green gremlin outside. Then there's the wonderful voice over which boomed outside and different frightening sounds from inside at different points. It still is my favourite ever Ghost Train though but sometimes you just don't need to change things.
I do love the Ghost Train. Pity the Imp thing has disappeared from right at the start (didn’t it have a name, Burt, or something. Pity a few of the effects weren’t working. I think the next section due for a refresh is the one immediately after the lift hill.
Roger Edwards Marketing TV It has had quite a lot of work done over the winter, hoping if we can get back to BPB this year we’ll get another POV filmed
Just binge watching your fabulous content again reminiscing of BPB! I think the tqgada should have been kept, its getting quite popular again on the travelling and flat ride circuit?
It the same ride but different theme than the one I rode when I was 10 at western playland in El Paso TX, of course I had my hands in front of my eyes the whole ride but I remember every bump and turn
Does anybody remember the part where the tunnel walls used to rotate and you felt as if you were actually moving up the side of the tunnel walls? It now looks like they have replaced it with some London Underground scene with no spinning. Health and Safety at work again.
Realistically it’s probably nothing to do with health and safety. I imagine it made some people nauseous if it was a proper illusion and the pleasure beach wouldn’t have wanted the ride to suffer downtime for the sake of cleaning up vomit.
Yup, it had the spinning tunnel when we went on it in the 70s. I was convinced the car was tipping over and desperately tried to pull my brother back in! And then right at the end there was an 'illusion' when the bricks in the roof fell down on top of you. That seemed very real at the time too, don't know how they did it.. we we're very young!
Canny good that me and a mate went on that together we both over weight nearly got stuck in car couldn't get out it's bit crazy this ride them doors flying open lol
I used to work on this ride, never saw any evidence of any Cloggy. The weirdest thing I ever witnessed was, at the time we had a problem with nesting pigeons nesting in the entrance ceiling and they'd crap everywhere, one morning I arrived to get the ride ready and there was dead pigeon everywhere, and I mean everywhere, about four of them ripped to pieces and scattered all over.
I was once fortunate enough to get stuck on this ride. The ride stopped as we were on the second upstairs balcony. This was a great experience as the guys came to get each of us off the cars and we got a very interesting walk through the ride with all the lights on.
Lucky!
That happened to me to but I stoped on the girl looking at a tv bit
I got stuck in the Valhalla facing at an angle
I can remember going on it at a young age and that happened to me and I was actually attached to my mum walking out because I was terrified
Nice!
Has to be the best classic ghost train out there. A vintage gem
Omg the first mirror on this I jumped at my own reflection me and sister laughed the whole way around after that 😂
Oh my god I was laughing the same thing
Lol that is funny🤣🤣😅
Omg my Mum and I did exactly the same thing. Howled with laughter
Oh my god. I did that and my mom laughs at me every time we mention it 🤣
same haha! I was with my dad and I screamed so loud and we were just laughing the whole time 😂
It’s such a great design. The outside and inside parts make it feel a lot bigger and longer than it actually is. Over 20 years of riding this now
I think the most frightening thing of this is the admission price Blackpool Pleasure Beach now charges you just to go inside. Bring back the good old days when you could just walk into the park and pick and choose what rides - if any - you actually wanted to go on.
Half of the effects and sounds are no longer working, quite sad tbh
ConnorLovatic At the time of the video that’s right, but a lot of work was done on it over winter so once BPB is back open we will re-do this video.
it’s been updated a bit and is much better!!
Pleasure Beach Experience I will tell you my thoughts on it as I am going in a few days! I will save this vid ready!
Same in 1980 - last time I went!
@@joerobertson8650 well?
As an American it's crazy to see these rides I've only seen on roller coaster tycoon. The game is incredibly accurate
I'm a fan of this classic ghost train..and I was pleased to see there was a queue for it when I was there last. Cannot beat a classic ride
I queued for 50 minutes to go on this last week. Was worth it.
@@tanyamariebarlow9284i qued for 2 minutes
This is one of the move impressive rides of this type that I’ve seen. I love the way it has several times where you are outside and then brought back in, as well as the extended length.
With things like the car designs, drop and the spinning tunnels, you can certainly see the influence for the _Rollercoaster Tycoon_ 1 and 2 version of the Ghost Train!
I think it would be fair to say BPB had a massive influence in the way some of the rides were designed
And the doors!
Imagine the ride stopping inside omg i would cry
Eve D How about walking round? ua-cam.com/video/PwHNTzN6qMc/v-deo.html
I went here ages ago and my 8 yr old bro got left alone
Lol i went out the seat and started punching the skeletons head on the bicycles and jumped back in😂
@@l3gtk1la3 Course you did
@@yourexperienceguide lol
Thanks for not talking at all during the ride. Hate it when people make comments, it spoils the experience. What a classic dark ride!! Wish they had one of these at my local park, I can't ride coasters anymore because of heart issues.
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When I was 7 my dad said everything was real.......so I cried my eyes out
Parenting done right haha
Pleasure Beach Experience YEP
It's all make believe.
@@bettyottman1718 I was 7, ofc I believed it back then
Probably my third favourite ride ever after 13 and valhalla. Love this ride with all it's creekiness and traditional effects. Pure love ❤
It reminds me of the old long time gone now (1967 - 1998) "Tren Fantasma" from Montjuic Park in Barcelona Spain. What made it unique and special is that it was built inside a mountain using the cuba war tunnels already digged in 1898 that connected the city and the castle.....so sad it is long gone now....
One of my fave ghost trains in the whole UK. So many stories on this being Haunted, i remember watching the team from Most Haunted doing an investigation here. Nice pov cheers for this Scott
I remember that episode (first one I think?) Thanks to them im convinced ghosts aren't real
@@vikingjoebloggs3887 apparently there was a ghost called " cloggy" who haunted the ghost train 😂😂
@@antoniamcgregor3285 Been there many times, No ghosts! Blackpool is haunted by the living enough (I say this with love)
@@vikingjoebloggs3887 oh yeah definitely haha just not a ghost called cloggy what kind of a name is that lol
@@antoniamcgregor3285 it’s not his real name it was his nickname
This brings back memories.These were compact rides that you just got what seemed a long ride.The Goldmine and Alice in wonderland all were great fun and clever engineering.
It’s a true classic
Wow. Last time I went on it was in 1984. It has NOT really changed at all. I remember it had a weird musty smell to it.
On part of it you went through doors onto a balcony looking down into a Cafe with everyone staring up at you, that bits gone forever
I remember a "scary" ride at Playland, a wonderful old-fashioned amusement park near the city of Rye, on Long Island Sound, New York. This video brought back memories of my childhood fun there. Thanks for posting the video!
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This brings back memories, used to be my favourite ride when my grandad took me to the Pleasure Beach in the 70’s. He used to call the little roller coaster bit the “switchback”. Sad to see my favourite bit isn’t there any more… the yellow rotating tunnel that used to make you feel like you were falling out of the car. I think that was where the London Underground section is now.
That is the London Underground bit yeah, thank you for watching 😀
No soundtrack or train audio :(
It would be nice with some music like ........ spooky spooky skeleton Sends shivers down my spine
I was on it yesterday and was disappointed that the train noise has gone from the tunnel at the end. Still a top ghost train though - love it!
That’s a shame I loved that part too!
Must’ve been a malfunction. Went on it yesterday and it’s still there!
None of the music was playing on this video, either. There's usually some Tangerine Dream.
I have been on this ride many times both as man and boy, but never on my own, lol. Personally I think its the best ghost train in the country and can't wait to go on it again when its fully back up to speed.
I always feel a bit uneasy doing it on my own lol
1:49
When I went on that, the doors opened and I shouted “MASTER” at the Satan wolf thing-cheered some of the older kids up, the little ones had no idea tho😂
Fair enough
Is that off hocus pocus?
@@anyaconnolly9045 yes!!😂😂
I had my eyes closed the entire time but I opened my eyes just once at that point and as it came at me I screamed so loud, I had an actual heart attack. Now looking at it in the video I think "The hell? That's what scared me so bad?" 😂😂
@@nightcoreroom8572 ahaha I remember I used to do that aswell 😂 the trick is to make everything seem dumb and laugh at it, then it’s not so scary😆
In year 6 we couldn’t go to France so we came her for our leavers trip and I went on this ride and was the only one who didn’t scream
Oh right, fair enough, thanks for watching
I never went to foreign countries
I went on this with my sister when I was younger. I think I was about 6 and she was about 12. But she was more scared then me. :p
I’m isolating and next week is my last week but luckily I can go to school on the last day
I remember my first time going on this it didn't scare me but the wearwolf before the drop made me jump BC of how loud it was
Yeah! It has that effect on most people
Same
Wow, trhanks for the video. Its certainly the best ride ive seen over the past 30 years.
One of my favourite dark rides out there, thanks for the video Scott.
Honestly the only thing that scared me was the sirens at the end it made me jump
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On my last visit the train late in the ghost train was out but the sound was working, this time it's the other way around where the light is working but the sound is out🤦♂️😕
And the picture frame with the woman and it's out as well.
Ghost train got so many effects turned of shame as one of the best ghost trains in country
daniel coulson It had quite a lot fixed over the winter closed season
a real, timeless gem.
Funny story. I was about to get on the ride (front of the line) but just as we were about to get on the ride just stopped. Lucky me.
Was obsessed with this ride as a child!!
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Upon watching this POV I have learned that the car is in fact, not supposed to tip over at the sharp right after the drop outside like it did for me! Had to push against the wall to get it back on all fours! :D
Wow, quite a long ride. The tunnel at the end (the tube station bit) used to be a rotating spiral which felt like you were tipping up and I seem to remember skeletons cycling round in a circle on bicycles. Im going back 40 years.
Skeletons on bikes are still in there
@@yourexperienceguide So they are!!! 3:27
a very quick glimpse on the right
See the skeleton on bikes are working again wasn't on in September shame about the train tunnel it's that smell in the ghost I love 👻👻
I really like the ghost Train and it's probably one of the best in the UK. I haven't done it since it's refurbishment but I'm looking forward to doing it. Do you think it'll be open this season along with the other dark rides like W&G and River Caves?
Expedition Ed I really hope so and I’ve not seen anything about it being closed. It’s had some upgrades since this POV too 😀
3:11
Meant to look like an oncoming ttain, very similar to Toads Wild Ride
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These rides were the best now no artist or sculpture that can work with this. Older machines have to be replaced. Such a shame.
It's much better to stay a classic full of charm than be modernised
I do love that smoke rings affect and that boiler😁😎
Love this ride. One of the scariest things about it when I used to ride as a kid was knowing there was a gigantic skeleton on the roof above my head the whole time! The giant skeleton's mouth used to open and close mechanically. Does it still do that?
Sadly not
3:12. Is it that bit where you enter to see that vortex effects? I don't remember there was a red light.
Yea it’s supposed to be like a train going towards you i think
First went on this is 2010 and it scared the hell out of me and still does
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I wanted to go on it but the cue was so long I didn’t bother but I liked watching it I’m gutted I didn’t do it
For me the queue was 10 miniutes, it looks long but there are a lot of cars on the ride.
Me and my grandad went on a ghost train at a moving circus in Llandudno, Wales, and the layout was mostly the same, except for that after the second balcony, you went down a steep drop into the station. When we went down that hill, it went stupidly fast, and a cardboard cutout moved to the side and we got sprayed with very watery foam. When we came off, it was also tipping it down.
3:15 why isnt that rotating illusion no longer on? Was the best thing.
Am I right in thinking they changed the underground tunnel? Didn't it used to twist and spin? I haven't been on it since I was 12 though so 20 years ago pretty much
Why don't you make a creepy version of LucaXtagVtag in the ghost train were should you build it?
What a cool ass ride...I love this. 🤘
There are some changes in this I love and some I don't, the make over with the start and end I love but that middle bit with gargoyle and shivering skeleton, I thought it was temporally there while they fixed the iron maiden, I love this ride but Id definitely throw some more modern tech in like projections. I think a little trip to Transworld is in order this Halloween, and give me back my dragon entrance, XD
Dragon at the entrance would be amazing, unlikely though.
my friend is scared of everything and whenever a door opened or something moved we screamed at the top of our lungs it was so funny
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Good 4K POV of the Ghost Train Scott
We used to have rides just like that at the Jersey shore on the boardwalk when I was a kid.. the scariest part about those rides as an adult is that you're by yourself and you never know if you're going to get stuck in there lol
I miss going on this ride like honestly it’s really fun
I’m going to Blackpool on the 5th of July and that’s also my bday!:)
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To this day I still think this is the most terrifying ride I’ve ever been on Hahah I hate ghost trains! 😭😂
Haha it is spooky this!
Pleasure Beach Experience yea it is! I plan on coming back next month September 4th! Staying in the Hilton down the road haha can’t wait!
When I was a kid in the mid 80's I went on a school trip to the seaside somewhere in Kent and we went to a great amusement park that had a ghost train that was very similar in layout to this one. I've always wondered where it was a forgot the name of the town it was in, does anyone have any ideas where it might have been? I don't think it was Margate (though I could be wrong), I think it was somewhere else on the Kent coast, could it have been Dymchurch perhaps?
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The park with the girl smashing the mirror creeps me out! And the part with the train!
When's that? What's the timestamp when that happened?
I rode the PB ghost train back in the late 70s,80s and 90s. Been on it since on random visits since 2000 and 2005. Sadly for me the modern replacements of many of the former moving exhibits is very disappointing. The girl in the coffin,giant spider,The witch,green gremlin outside. Then there's the wonderful voice over which boomed outside and different frightening sounds from inside at different points. It still is my favourite ever Ghost Train though but sometimes you just don't need to change things.
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I do love the Ghost Train. Pity the Imp thing has disappeared from right at the start (didn’t it have a name, Burt, or something. Pity a few of the effects weren’t working. I think the next section due for a refresh is the one immediately after the lift hill.
Roger Edwards Marketing TV It has had quite a lot of work done over the winter, hoping if we can get back to BPB this year we’ll get another POV filmed
Just binge watching your fabulous content again reminiscing of BPB! I think the tqgada should have been kept, its getting quite popular again on the travelling and flat ride circuit?
Thank you! I am always sad that they binned off Trauma Towers
These videos deserve more like :c
Amba_ Bamba_2007 Thank you
Hi mate been on this today and layouts changed (again) wondering if you can update the POV thanks
Layout hasn’t changed at all
Oh, sorry mate i meant the features not the track layout
Eyes closed every time I went on it, and I went on it a LOT!!!
It is very spooky in there!
Paul Gibson open them its not scary
I’ve never been able to open my eyes on it! Terrified!
Aw what’s happened to the music as you ride around? That adds to the atmosphere
I don't remember it having music the full way through
Very nice dark ride. One of the best I have seen.
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Are they any monsters sharks in the scary ride?
Watch the video and you'll see what it does
Only thing that would frighten me about that ride is the thought ide paid good money for it!! That would give me nightmares for weeks!
David Carroll It’s a true classic, the original of its kind 👌🏼
Just did revolution for the first time its the best!
Awesome
Please don't ever close this i had my best childhood memories riding this !
It’s not our decision but we doubt it’ll close anytime soon
I love this♥️♥️
It the same ride but different theme than the one I rode when I was 10 at western playland in El Paso TX, of course I had my hands in front of my eyes the whole ride but I remember every bump and turn
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Omg tmrw is my trip and I'm going on that ride and I'm so scareddddddd
Did you do it?
Does anybody remember the part where the tunnel walls used to rotate and you felt as if you were actually moving up the side of the tunnel walls? It now looks like they have replaced it with some London Underground scene with no spinning. Health and Safety at work again.
Realistically it’s probably nothing to do with health and safety. I imagine it made some people nauseous if it was a proper illusion and the pleasure beach wouldn’t have wanted the ride to suffer downtime for the sake of cleaning up vomit.
Yup, it had the spinning tunnel when we went on it in the 70s. I was convinced the car was tipping over and desperately tried to pull my brother back in! And then right at the end there was an 'illusion' when the bricks in the roof fell down on top of you. That seemed very real at the time too, don't know how they did it.. we we're very young!
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Yes, that was my favourite part in the 70’s! Think it was indeed where the London Underground section is now.
Awesome On-Ride POV on The Ghost Train!
Thanks for watching, in future I'll use an external light to help improve the quality.
Canny good that me and a mate went on that together we both over weight nearly got stuck in car couldn't get out it's bit crazy this ride them doors flying open lol
Mic Jubba Lol, it’s not the easiest to get in and out of
Now thats what you call a ghost train!! Probably the best one in the uk tell the truth.
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Hi I’m a huge fan ❤️❤️❤️
went on this a few years ago and felt a hand touch my shoulder
jess x thanks for that I am going on Sunday 👻👻👻
XxCow print MochaxX have fun
Love this ,was on it in the 80s
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Great video thank you
Thanks 🙏
This ride brings back the memories
Didn't this used to have 3 skeletons on bicycles, riding in a circle? Or am I totally mis-remembering something else?
GMMilambar They’re still there, the camera didn’t pick them up because it’s a low lite area in the ride
A lot of the effects didn't seem to be working. In the future I think they should keep the ghost train, but update the effects.
This is an old POV now
3:40 That fire alarm when I went there gave me the fright of my life!
It is very noisy!
@@yourexperienceguide It really is! Is it a Klaxon Nexus, Syrex or anything else?
First❤️❤️
Pretzel rides are so cool
Wow! The best i've ever seen
Not bad for 90 years of operation
What happened to the skyline riding the bikes
Skeletons?
Love the vid :))
Where is this now? I need to ride this!
The same place it’s been for 90 years, Blackpool Pleasure Beach 😆
That looks so fun
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Amazing!
The Wallace and gromit ride was scary with the wear rabbit scare at the end
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I used to work on this ride, never saw any evidence of any Cloggy. The weirdest thing I ever witnessed was, at the time we had a problem with nesting pigeons nesting in the entrance ceiling and they'd crap everywhere, one morning I arrived to get the ride ready and there was dead pigeon everywhere, and I mean everywhere, about four of them ripped to pieces and scattered all over.
The pigeons are still a problem these days although they do put stuff up to try and discourage them!
I love this ride
It's a classic
I got on the ghost train on my birthday yesterday it was dead scary in the glass maze it was shiny until the scream I had a panic attack
The conversation that the man had with the ride operator is such a British thing to do
I do know the guy to be fair lol
@@yourexperienceguide lol
1:57 Roller _ghoster!_
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