Entwistle railway station

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Entwistle

Location

Place

Entwistle

Local authority

Blackburn with Darwen

Operations

Station code

ENT

Managed by

Northern Rail

Platforms in use

Live departures and station information from National Rail

Annual Rail Passenger Usage

2004/05 *

9,158

2005/06 *

10,025

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* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Entwistle from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.

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The remote Entwistle station is served by Northern Rail services on the Manchester Victoria/Bolton 'Ribble Valley' Line towards Blackburn and Clitheroe. The station is 9 km (5¾ miles) north of Bolton.

It is the closest station to Edgworth, but lack of parking and a difficult approach along minor roads make it unpopular with commuters. Services are infrequent and, unlike the nearby Bromley Cross, the station lies outside the GMPTE boundary, making travel to and from Manchester expensive. Owing to the remote location and low passenger numbers, Entwistle has been a request stop for nearly two years. This means passengers wishing to alight must signal, as they would for a bus, and those wishing to depart a train must inform the conductor.

Entwistle Station in the early 1960s.

The station was once substantially larger and served the factories at Knowmill. Until recently the remains of an overhead cable railway, connecting the factory to the railway goods yard, were visible in an adjoining woods. The mills were demolished when the level of the Wayoh Reservoir was raised and the station was reduced in size following Beeching's report.

[edit] Media Appearances

The station has been used as a location for filming on more than one occasion:

In the 1986 adaptation of Jeffrey Archer's First Among Equals the sequences at the fictional Redfern Station were filmed there.

In Episode 2 of Max and Paddy's Road to Nowhere, as part of the storyline, the station was renamed Middlewood (not to be confused with a real life station of the same name on the Buxton Line) due to its supposedly rural backwater location.

[edit] Services

There is generally an infrequent request stop service northbound to Blackburn and Clitheroe and southbound to Bolton and Manchester Victoria. Sundays there is a two-hourly service in each direction.