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Baxenden railway station served the villages of
Baxenden Baxenden is a village and ward in the Borough of Hyndburn in Lancashire, North-West England. The ward population taken at the United Kingdom Census 2011, 2011 census was 4,042. Baxenden is sometimes known to locals as Bash. History Whilst ...
in
Hyndburn Hyndburn is a local government district with borough status in Lancashire, England. Its council is based in Accrington and covers the outlying towns of Clayton-le-Moors, Great Harwood, Oswaldtwistle and Rishton. The borough was created in 197 ...
and Rising Bridge in Rossendale. It was situated just inside the old boundary of Haslingden on the line from to , which was opened in 1848 by the
East Lancashire Railway East Lancashire Railway is a 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 railway station, Bury Bolton Street, ...
. 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 Accrington Corporation Steam Tramways Company operated a steam-powered passenger tramway service in Accrington between 1886 and 1907. History The Accrington Corporation Tramways Act of 1882 authorised a joint venture between the corporation an ...
built a tramline from
Accrington Accrington is a town in the Hyndburn borough of Lancashire, England. It lies about east of Blackburn, west of Burnley, east of Preston, north of Manchester and is situated on the culverted River Hyndburn. Commonly abbreviated by locals to ...
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.


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Disused railway stations in Hyndburn Former Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1848 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1951 {{NorthWestEngland-railstation-stub