Baxenden railway station

Baxenden
The site of the station in 1963
General information
Location	Baxenden, Hyndburn England
Coordinates	53°43′37″N2°20′24″W / 53.7270°N 2.3401°W / 53.7270; -2.3401
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	East Lancashire Railway
Pre-grouping	Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
17 August 1848	Opened
10 September 1951	Closed to passengers [1]
6 February 1961	Closed to goods [2]
Location

Baxenden railway station served the villages of Baxenden in Hyndburn and Rising Bridge in Rossendale. It was situated just inside the old boundary of Haslingden on the line from Bury Bolton Street to Accrington, which was opened in 1848 by the East Lancashire Railway. The station gave its name to the nearby Baxenden Bank, the two-mile section towards Accrington that included gradients as steep as 1 in 38.

The Accrington Corporation Steam Tramways Company built a tramline from Accrington in 1887 that terminated at the station. The station closed to passengers in 1951, some fifteen years before the line serving it suffered a similar fate.

References

1. Quick, M E (2002). Railway passenger stations in England, Scotland and Wales – a chronology. Richmond: Railway and Canal Historical Society. p. 69. OCLC   931112387.
2. "Site of Baxenden Station © Ben Brooksbank cc-by-sa/2.0 :: Geograph Britain and Ireland". Geograph. 20 July 1963. Retrieved 15 January 2023.

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Accrington		Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway East Lancashire Railway		Haslingden