Bacup
The station in 1962
General information
Location	Bacup,Rossendale England
Coordinates	53°41′52″N2°12′04″W / 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
Location

Bacup railway station served the town ofBacup, inRossendale,Lancashire, England, from 1852 until its closure in 1966. It was the terminus of two lines: one fromRawtenstall and the other fromRochdale.

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Legend
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 theEast Lancashire Railway, it was taken over by theLancashire and Yorkshire Railway in 1859. It became part of theLondon, Midland and Scottish Railway during theGrouping of 1923.^[1]

The LMS closed the line fromRochdale in June 1947, shortly before the station passed on to theLondon Midland Region of British Railways onnationalisation in 1948.

It was closed by theBritish Railways Board, as a result of theBeeching cuts of the mid-1960s. The line was cut back toRawtenstall in 1966. Until the very day of closure, trains ran every half an hour on weekdays and every fifteen minutes on Saturdays.^[1]

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.^[1]

• 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)

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

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