Stubbins railway station

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Stubbins
Stubbins railway station
Location
Place Stubbins
Area Rossendale
Coordinates 53°39′29″N 2°19′00″W / 53.6580°N 2.3168°W / 53.6580; -2.3168Coordinates: 53°39′29″N 2°19′00″W / 53.6580°N 2.3168°W / 53.6580; -2.3168
Grid reference SD791180
Operations
Original company East Lancashire Railway
Pre-grouping Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
Post-grouping London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Platforms 2
History
1846 station opened
1972 station closed
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom
Closed railway stations in Britain
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Stubbins railway station served the village of Stubbins in Rossendale. Opened by the East Lancashire Railway in 1846 on their line from Bury Bolton Street into Rossendale, it was situated next to the junction of the lines toward Accrington and to Rawtenstall and Bacup, but only had platforms on the latter route.

It closed to passengers in 1972, when the Bury to Rawtenstall service was withdrawn by British Rail, although the line through it remained open for coal traffic until December 1980. The ELR has since reopened the line as a tourist railway, but the station here has not been reinstated.

However the ELR hopes to restore (and then re-open) this Junction station within the near future, possibly as part of a plan or two to extend westwards to as far as Rossendale Golf Course (close to Helmshore).[citation needed]

Preceding station Disused railways Following station
Ramsbottom
Line and station open
  Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
East Lancashire Railway
  Ewood Bridge and Edenfield
Line open, station closed
Railways in Rossendale
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
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