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Baxenden railway station

Coordinates: 53°43′37″N 2°20′24″W / 53.7270°N 2.3401°W / 53.7270; -2.3401
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Baxenden
The site of the station in 1963
General information
LocationBaxenden, Hyndburn
England
Coordinates53°43′37″N 2°20′24″W / 53.7270°N 2.3401°W / 53.7270; -2.3401
Platforms2
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original companyEast Lancashire Railway
Pre-groupingLancashire and Yorkshire Railway
Post-groupingLondon, Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
17 August 1848Opened
10 September 1951Closed to passengers[1]
6 February 1961Closed to goods[2]

Baxenden railway station served the villages of Baxenden in Hyndburn and Rising Bridge in Rossendale. It was situated just inside the old boundary of Haslingden on the line from Bury Bolton Street to Accrington, which was opened in 1848 by the East Lancashire Railway. The station gave its name to the nearby Baxenden Bank, the two-mile section towards Accrington that included gradients as steep as 1 in 38.

The Accrington Corporation Steam Tramways Company built a tramline from Accrington in 1887 that terminated at the station. The station closed to passengers in 1951, some fifteen years before the line serving it suffered a similar fate.

References

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  1. ^ Quick, M E (2002). Railway passenger stations in England, Scotland and Wales – a chronology. Richmond: Railway and Canal Historical Society. p. 69. OCLC 931112387.
  2. ^ "Site of Baxenden Station © Ben Brooksbank cc-by-sa/2.0 :: Geograph Britain and Ireland". Geograph. 20 July 1963. Retrieved 15 January 2023.


Preceding station   Disused railways   Following station
Accrington   Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
East Lancashire Railway
  Haslingden