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The East Lancashire Railway is a twelve-and-a-half-mile (20 km) heritage railway line in North West England which runs between Heywood, Greater Manchester and Rawtenstall in Lancashire. There are intermediate stations at Bury Bolton Street , Burrs Country Park , Summerseat and Ramsbottom , with the line crossing the border into Rossendale ...
The East Lancashire Railway operated from 1844 to 1859 in the historic county of Lancashire, England.It began as a railway from Clifton via Bury to Rawtenstall, and during its short life grew into a complex network of lines connecting towns and cities including Liverpool, Manchester, Salford, Preston, Burnley and Blackburn.
The East Lancashire Railway was, in turn, absorbed by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway on 13 May 1859. The line connected end-on at Colne with the Leeds and Bradford Extension Railway's line to Skipton and Bradford. This 11 + 1 ⁄ 2-mile (18.5 km) link closed in 1970. [3] The Skipton–East Lancashire Rail Action Partnership campaigns to ...
Heywood railway station serves the town of Heywood in Greater Manchester, England. The original station was opened in 1841 (by the Manchester and Leeds Railway). It was resited in 1848 when the line was extended to Bury. It closed on 5 October 1970. It re-opened on 6 September 2003 [1] as an extension of the East Lancashire Railway from Bury ...
The station was built by the East Lancashire Railway and opened on 28 September 1846. On that date, the line was completed from Clifton Junction through Bury and Ramsbottom to Rawtenstall, enabling through trains to operate from Manchester Victoria.
Exterior view in 1965 View looking north-east towards Burnley and Hellifield in 1965. There has been a station on the current site since 1846, when the Blackburn and Preston Railway (a constituent company of the East Lancashire Railway) was opened; the contract to build the station having been awarded in November 1845.
East Lancashire Railway future [ edit ] The western portion of this line was retained for freight traffic after passenger trains ceased (serving the coal depot at Rawtenstall until 1980, and subsequently to the Powell Duffryn wagon works) and it now forms the link with the East Lancashire Railway heritage route at Heywood . [ 4 ]
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