Ffrith Beach Pleasure Gardens, Prestatyn

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Ffrith Beach Pleasure Gardens, Prestatyn
Topic Started: 18 Feb 2009, 07:44 PM (238 Views)
colinpeake	18 Feb 2009, 07:44 PM Post #1
MRW Digest Editor Posts: 1,659 Group: MRMT Trustees Member #6 Joined: August 15, 2006	Now don't ask me why, but I was scanning the North Wales coastline on Microsoft Live Search Maps, and noticed this 'Birds Eye View'. Now to me that looks like a miniature railway formation - balloon loop to ballooon loop with the loops meeting, and even a tunnel at the top left hand corner. I wasn't aware of a railway in this area since the Ian Allan run line of the 1970s, so I did a little digging, to eventually find that the site was called renamed the 'Ffrith Beach Pleasure Gardens' some time ago, and appears to have had a chequered history. This page: http://www.rhyl.com/ contains the text "Prestatyn's Ffrith Beach Festival Gardens is planned that this will become a major tourist attraction for the future which should include boats, go karts, miniature railway, catering and other family attractions set in landscaped gardens with ample coach and car parking areas." - so a miniature line was definately planned here, and a trackbed laid! In an attempt to revide the site a new lease was granted two years ago and fairground rides from Ocean Beach, Rhyl, moved in (see here), however earlier this month the company went into administration... (see here). As a reminder of times past on the old line here, there is a gem of a photo on the BBC Wales website - click for Sante Fe goodness! Just thought it was worth recording a line that never was, does anyone know more about the planned line? Colin
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