Bacup railway station

Bacup
The station in 1962
Location
Place Rossendale
Area Lancashire
Coordinates 53°41′52″N 2°12′04″W / 53.69780°N 2.20104°W / 53.69780; -2.20104Coordinates: 53°41′52″N 2°12′04″W / 53.69780°N 2.20104°W / 53.69780; -2.20104
Grid reference SD868223
Operations
Original company East Lancashire Railway
Pre-grouping Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
Post-grouping London Midland and Scottish Railway
Platforms 2
History
1 October 1852 Station opens
5 December 1966 Station closes
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom
Closed railway stations in Britain
A B C D–F G H–J K–L M–O P–R S T–V W–Z
UK Railways portal
Railways in Rossendale
Bacup
Stacksteads
Britannia
Waterfoot
Shawforth
Clough Fold
Facit
Whitworth
to Rochdale
to Accrington
Rawtenstall
Haslingden
Ewood Bridge & Edenfield
Helmshore
Irwell Vale
East Lancashire Railway
Stubbins
to Bury

Bacup railway station served the town of Bacup in Rossendale, Lancashire, England, from 1852 until closure in 1966 and was the terminus of two lines one from Rawtenstall and the other from Rochdale.

History

Opened by the East Lancashire Railway, then run by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, it became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The LMS closed the line from Rochdale in June 1947, shortly before the station passed on to the London Midland Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. It was then closed by the British Railways Board as a result of the Beeching cuts of the mid-1960s. The line was cut back to Rawtenstall in 1966. Until the very day of closure in 1966 trains ran every half an hour (every fifteen minutes on Saturdays) and was a well used line until the end.

Few traces of the station remain today, as the site has now been redeveloped and built over.

Preceding station Disused railways Following station
Stacksteads   Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
Rawtenstall to Bacup Line		   Terminus
Britannia   Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
Rochdale to Bacup Line		   Terminus

References

  • Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199.
  • Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687.
  • Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-086-0. OCLC 22311137.
  • Lost Railways of Lancashire by Gordon Suggitt ( ISBN 1-85306-801-2)
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