Bacup railway station

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

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 opens
5 December 1966	Station closes

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

History

Opened by the East Lancashire Railway, it was taken over by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway following the former's merger, and 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. (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 (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)

External links

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