Bacup railway station

Bacup
The station in 1962
General information
Location	Bacup, Rossendale England
Coordinates	53.69780°N 2.20104°W / 53.69780; -2.20104
Grid reference	SD868223
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	East Lancashire Railway
Pre-grouping	Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
Post-grouping	London Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
1 October 1852	Station opened
5 December 1966	Station closed

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

History

Railways in Rossendale
Bacup Stacksteads Britannia Waterfoot Shawforth Clough Fold Facit Whitworth to Rochdale to Accrington Rawtenstall Haslingden Ewood Bridge and Edenfield Helmshore Irwell Vale East Lancashire Railway Stubbins to Bury

Opened by the East Lancashire Railway, it was taken over by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway in 1859. 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 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, trains ran every half an hour on weekdays and every fifteen minutes on Saturdays.

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

The site today

Few traces of the station remain today, as the site has now been redeveloped as industrial units. Part of an original boundary wall is extant.

References

Sources

• Butt, R. V. J. (October 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. OL 11956311M.
• 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.
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687.
• Suggitt, Gordon (2003), Lost Railways of Lancashire, Countryside Books. (ISBN 1-85306-801-2)

External links

• Bacup station on navigable O.S. map
• Old photos of Bacup station
• Photo of the old station site and route towards Rawtenstall