Smithy Bridge
Smithy Bridge railway station
General information
Location	Smithy Bridge,Rochdale England
Grid reference	SD925151
Managed by	Northern
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	SMB
Classification	DfT category F1
Key dates
1868 1960 1985	Original station opened Closed Current station opened
Passengers
2019/20	0.205 million
2020/21	50,430
2021/22	0.124 million
2022/23	0.140 million
2023/24	0.173 million
Location
Notes Passenger statistics from theOffice of Rail and Road

Smithy Bridge railway station serves the village ofSmithy Bridge andHollingworth Lake nearRochdale inGreater Manchester,England. The station is on theCaldervale Line12+3⁄4 miles (20.5 km) north ofManchester Victoria on the way toLeeds.

The station is unstaffed, but there are ticket machines available to allow intending passengers to purchase or collect tickets prior to travelling. Both platforms have waiting shelters and step-free access.^[1]

Northern Trains Route 9
v t e
Calder Valley Line and East Lancashire Line
York Ulleskelf Church Fenton Micklefield East Garforth Garforth Cross Gates Leeds Bramley New Pudsey Bradford Interchange Low Moor Halifax Sowerby Bridge Mytholmroyd Hebden Bridge Manchester Victoria Moston Mills Hill Castleton Rochdale Smithy Bridge Littleborough Walsden Todmorden Colne Nelson Brierfield Burnley Central Burnley Barracks Burnley Manchester Road Rose Grove Hapton Huncoat Accrington Church and Oswaldtwistle Rishton Blackburn Mill Hill Cherry Tree Pleasington Bamber Bridge Lostock Hall Preston Salwick Kirkham and Wesham Poulton-le-Fylde Blackpool North Moss Side Lytham Ansdell and Fairhaven St Annes-on-the-Sea Squires Gate Blackpool Pleasure Beach Blackpool South
Burnley Barracks,Hapton and Pleasington are request stops.

There is a basic half-hourly service (with peak period extras) from the station to Manchester Victoria southbound and toTodmorden northbound on weekdays. From there, trains continue alternately toBlackburn viaBurnley Manchester Road and to Leeds viaBrighouse. Westbound services run beyond Manchester toWigan Wallgate andHeadbolt Lane.

In the early morning and evenings, trains to Leeds run viaHalifax but on the same frequency, whilst on Sundays the service is hourly and provided by the Southport/Manchester to Blackburn trains.^[2]

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Rochdale		Northern Caldervale Line		Littleborough

The station was first opened by theLancashire & Yorkshire Railway in October 1868. In 1915, the station was the scene of a tragic accident involving an express train and an empty stock train. Four people died and many others were injured. It was closed on 2 May 1960 byBritish Rail but reopened on its original site, albeit with a slightly different platform layout, on 19 August 1985 with financial assistance fromGreater Manchester PTE. The signal box here, which controlled the level crossing and acted as a 'fringe' box to Preston PSB from 1973 onwards, was downgraded in late 2011 from a block post to a crossing box. The signalling is remotely operated from the new 'Rochdale West' panel atCastleton (which also supervises the layout atRochdale and will eventually replace another box at Castleton East Junction) and the crossing is now automatic. Smithy Bridge Crossing box was closed early in 2014 and has since been demolished.^[3]

• The Weighvers Seaport by A W Colligan in association with George Kelsall (ISBN 0-9505577-0-6)

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• Train times andstation information for Smithy Bridge railway station fromNational Rail

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