Brock railway station served the hamlet of Brock near

Bilsborrow Bilsborrow is a village on the A6 road and the Lancaster Canal, in the Wyre District, in the English county of Lancashire. The village population at the 2011 census was 632. It is approximately east of Myerscough. Bilsborrow was a civil par ...

, Lancashire, England, from 1849 to 1939 on the

Lancaster and Preston Junction Railway The Lancaster and Preston Junction Railway opened its twenty-mile line in 1840 in Lancashire, England. The company was not commercially successful. When the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway opened in 1846, the L&PJR became part of a busy trunk rai ...

History

The station opened in August 1849 by the

. It replaced , which was to the south. To the west was a siding and underneath the platforms was the River Brock. The station closed on 1 May 1939. Since 2012, the site of the demolished stationmaster's house and a terrace of four railway cottages has become a nature reserve protected by the

Fields in Trust Fields in Trust, is a British charity set up in 1925 as the National Playing Fields Association (NPFA), by Brigadier-General Reginald Kentish and the Duke of York, later King George VI, who was the first president, which protects parks and green s ...

charity.

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Disused railway stations in the Borough of Wyre Railway stations opened in 1849 Railway stations closed in 1939 1849 establishments in England 1939 disestablishments in England {{NorthWestEngland-railstation-stub Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1849