Haslingden railway station

Haslingden railway station served the town of Haslingden, in the borough of Rossendale, Lancashire, England, between 1848 and 1960.

History The station was built by the East Lancashire Railway (ELR) on their to line and was opened on 17 August 1848.

In 1859, the ELR was incorporated into the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, which operated it until 1923 when it became part of the London Midland and Scottish Railway. Owned by the London Midland Region of British Railways from 1948, it was closed on 7 November 1960. The route through the station closed on 5 December 1966 and the tracks were subsequently lifted.

The site today The A56 Haslingden by-pass now occupies the trackbed and where the station stood; it was built in 1980.

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