Ramsgreave and Wilpshire railway station

Ramsgreave & Wilpshire
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Location
Place	Wilpshire
Local authority	Blackburn with Darwen
Grid reference	SD685316
Operations
Station code	RGW
Managed by	Northern Rail
Number of platforms	2
DfT category	F2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05	47,935
2005/06	53,275
2006/07	58,243
2007/08	66,096
2008/09	67,156
2009/10	76,840
2010/11	88,822
2011/12	0.108 million
2012/13	0.110 million
2013/14	0.114 million
2014/15	0.111 million
History
Key dates	Opened May 1994 (May 1994)
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Ramsgreave & Wilpshire from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Ramsgreave and Wilpshire is a railway station on the Ribble Valley Line that serves the villages/suburbs of Ramsgreave and Wilpshire, just north of Blackburn in Lancashire, England. The station is north of Blackburn railway station.

The present station was built 400 yards south of the original Wilpshire station which served the Ribble Valley Line until its closure just before the Beeching Axe in 1962. When the line was re-opened in 1994 a new site had to be found, due to the construction of houses which blocked access to the old station. The platforms which served as the old Wilpshire Station (also known as "Wilpshire for Ribchester") can still be seen.

Services

The station is operated by Northern Rail and is served by a daily hourly service northbound to Clitheroe and southbound to Blackburn and Manchester Victoria with extra trains during peak hours.

On Sundays in the summer, one or two trains operate from Preston or Blackpool North along the Ribble Valley Line via Clitheroe to Hellifield railway station and onwards towards Carlisle.

External links

• Train times and station information for Ramsgreave and Wilpshire railway station from National Rail

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Langho		Northern Rail Ribble Valley Line		Blackburn
	Disused railways
Langho Line and station open		Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Blackburn Railway		Daisyfield Line open, station closed