Rose Grove railway station
Rose Grove East Lancashire Railway | |
|---|---|
| Pre-grouping | Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway |
| Post-grouping | London, Midland and Scottish Railway |
| Key dates | |
| 18 September 1848 | Station opened |
| Passengers | |
| 2018/19 |  61,064 |
| 2019/20 |  73,584 |
| 2020/21 | 18,534 |
| Interchange | 667 |
| 2021/22 | 52,788 |
| Interchange | 1,566 |
| 2022/23 | 59,934 |
| Interchange | 2,190 |
| Notes | |
Passenger statistics from the encyclopedic style. (May 2022) ) | |
Rose Grove railway station in
Great Harwood Loop between Blackburn and Burnley via Great Harwood
and Padiham. The station is now a junction station for both the Caldervale and East Lancashire lines.
History
The railway reached Rose Grove in 1848, and the
steam locomotives
on British Railways. The station became unstaffed in the 1980s, following the demolition of the station buildings.
The last remnants of the
Great Harwood Loop towards Padiham have also disappeared, the line having been closed in 1993 with the end of oil traffic to the power station there. The site is now occupied by the M65 motorway, which runs beside the railway at this point. During the mid to late 1980s,[1] Rose Grove was the starting point for an Inter City "Holidaymaker" Saturday service; in the 1989 timetable this ran as the 06:50 to Paignton via Preston and Birmingham New Street
, leaving Paignton at 14:10 for the return journey.
Services
In the spring 2023 timetable, the station has two services per hour in each direction Mondays to Saturdays. One runs between Colne and Preston (the East Lancashire Line), whilst the other runs between Blackburn and
Manchester Victoria via Burnley Manchester Road and Todmorden (this resumed in 2015, after an absence of 50 years). Many of the latter services continue west of Manchester to Wigan Wallgate and Kirkby
.
On Sundays, the East Lancashire service drops to two-hourly (but running through to/from Blackpool South) while the service to/from Manchester remains hourly (and continues to Southport).[2]
References
- ^ "Devon Memories" Derby Sulzers website; retrieved 16 August 2016
- ^ Table 105 National Rail timetable, May 2023
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Rose Grove railway station.
- Train times and station information for Rose Grove railway station from National Rail
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| Hapton | East Lancashire Line
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Burnley Barracks | ||
| Accrington | Caldervale Line
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Burnley Manchester Road | ||
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| Hapton Line and station open |
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway East Lancashire Railway |
Burnley Barracks Line and station open | ||
Copy Pit Line
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Burnley Manchester Road Line and station open | |||
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| Padiham Line and station closed |
Great Harwood Loop
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