Whalley railway station

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Whalley

Location
Place	Whalley
Local authority	Ribble Valley
Grid reference	SD729365
Operations
Station code	WHE
Managed by	Northern Rail
Number of platforms	2
Live arrivals/departures and station information from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05	48,977
2005/06	54,131
2006/07	61,822
2007/08	65,200
2008/09	64,408
2009/10	71,052
2010/11	77,740
2011/12	86,672
History
Opened May 1994 (May 1994)
National Rail – UK railway stations
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Whalley from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Whalley railway station serves the village of Whalley in Lancashire, England. The station lies on the Ribble Valley Line 7 ¹⁄₄ miles (11.7 km) north of Blackburn. The station has two platforms, slightly offset from each other.

History

The station opened in 1850. It was closed in September 1962 by the British Transport Commission, but reopened with the rest of the line in 1994.

Services

There is generally an hourly service daily northbound to Clitheroe and southbound to Blackburn, and Manchester Victoria with extra trains during peak hours.

This Service also calls at:

Langho,
Ramsgreave & Wilpshire,
Darwen,
Entwistle (Request Stop),
Bromley Cross,
Hall i' th' Wood,
Bolton,
Salford Crescent
Salford Central.

On Sundays in the summer, one or two trains operate from Preston or Blackpool North along the Ribble Valley Line via Clitheroe to Hellifield railway station and onwards towards Settle and Carlisle.

External links

Train times and station information for Whalley railway station from National Rail
The history of Whalley Railway Station - Ribble Valley Railway

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Langho		Northern Rail Ribble Valley Line		Clitheroe

v t e Railway stations in Lancashire

West Coast Main Line	Euxton Balshaw Lane Leyland Preston Lancaster

Kirkby Branch Line	Upholland

Manchester to Southport Line	Appley Bridge Parbold Hoscar Burscough Bridge New Lane Bescar Lane

Merseyrail Northern Line	Town Green Aughton Park Ormskirk

Ormskirk Branch Line	Ormskirk Burscough Junction Rufford Croston Preston

Blackpool Branch Lines	Preston Salwick Kirkham and Wesham Poulton-le-Fylde Layton Blackpool North Moss Side Lytham Ansdell and Fairhaven St Annes-on-the-Sea Squires Gate Blackpool Pleasure Beach Blackpool South

Manchester to Preston Line	Adlington Chorley Buckshaw Parkway Leyland Preston

Ribble Valley Line	Entwistle Darwen Blackburn Ramsgreave and Wilpshire Langho Whalley Clitheroe

East Lancashire Line	Preston Lostock Hall Bamber Bridge Pleasington Cherry Tree Mill Hill Blackburn Rishton Church and Oswaldtwistle Accrington Huncoat Hapton Rose Grove Burnley Barracks Burnley Central Brierfield Nelson Colne

Caldervale Line	Burnley Manchester Road Accrington Blackburn Preston Poulton-le-Fylde Blackpool North

Leeds to Morecambe Line	Wennington Carnforth Lancaster Bare Lane Morecambe Heysham Port

Furness Line	Lancaster Carnforth Silverdale

Heritage Railways	Irwell Vale Rawtenstall Riversway Strand Road Crossing

Disused stations

v t e Borough of Ribble Valley

Towns	Clitheroe Longridge

Villages & suburbs	Balderstone Barrow Bashall Eaves Billington Bolton-by-Bowland Brockhall Village Chatburn Chipping Clayton-le-Dale Dinckley Downham Dunsop Bridge Gisburn Great Mitton Grindleton Horton Hurst Green Langho Low Moor Mellor Brook Mellor Middop Newsholme Newton-in-Bowland Osbaldeston Paythorne Pendleton Read Ribchester Rimington Sabden Salesbury Sawley Simonstone Slaidburn Tosside Twiston Waddington West Bradford Whalley Whitewell Wilpshire Wiswell Worston York

Parishes	Aighton, Bailey and Chaigley Balderstone Bashall Eaves Billington and Langho Bolton-by-Bowland Bowland Forest High Bowland Forest Low Bowland-with-Leagram Chatburn Chipping Clayton-le-Dale Clitheroe Dinckley Downham Dutton Easington Gisburn Gisburn Forest Great Mitton Grindleton Horton Hothersall Little Mitton Longridge Mearley Mellor Middop Newsholme Newton Osbaldeston Paythorne Pendleton Ramsgreave Read Ribchester Rimington Sabden Salesbury Sawley Simonstone Slaidburn Thornley-with-Wheatley Twiston Waddington West Bradford Whalley Wilpshire Wiswell Worston

Transport	Railway stations: Clitheroe Langho Whalley Disused: Chatburn Gisburn Longridge Newsholme Rimington Simonstone

Churches	Balderstone: St Leonard Bolton-by-Bowland: Sts Peter and Paul Chatburn: Christ Church Chipping: St Bartholomew Clitheroe: St Mary Magdalene Great Mitton: All Hallows Grindleton: St Ambrose Langho: Old St Leonard New St Leonard Ribchester: St Wilfrid Slaidburn: St Andrew Stydd: St Saviour Waddington: St Helen Whalley: St Mary and All Saints

Other buildings & structures	Alston Hall Bremetennacum Browsholme Hall Clitheroe Castle Clitheroe Interchange Listed in Chipping Listed in Dutton King's House Kirk Mill Martholme Viaduct Read Hall and Park Samlesbury Aerodrome Sawley Abbey Station Road Ground Stydd Swan Court The Old Zoo Waddow Hall Whalley Abbey

Education	Bowland High Clitheroe Royal Grammar School Moorland School Oakhill College St Augustine's RC High School Stonyhurst College Stonyhurst Saint Mary's Hall

Sport	Clitheroe F.C. Longridge circuit Station Road Ground

Topography	Centre of Great Britain Forest of Bowland Forest of Pendle Stocks Reservoir Trough of Bowland Hills: Easington Fell Hawthornthwaite Fell Longridge Fell Parlick Pendle Hill White Hill Wolfhole Crag Waterways: Bashall Brook Dinckley Brook R Dunsop R Hodder R Loud Pendleton Brook R Ribble Sabden Brook Skirden Beck Stock Beck Stydd Brook

History	Battle of Clitheroe

Media	Clitheroe Advertiser and Times

Politics	District elections Ribble Valley constituency 1991 by-election Clitheroe constituency 1979 by-election

Coordinates: 53°49′26″N 2°24′43″W / 53.824°N 2.412°W / 53.824; -2.412

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