Cornholme railway station served the village of

Cornholme Cornholme is a village within the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale, in West Yorkshire, England. It lies at the edge of Calderdale, on the boundary with Lancashire, and in the narrow Calder Valley about north-west of Todmorden (where the popu ...

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on the Copy Pit line. The station was opened by the

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in July 1878 (nearly thirty years after the line itself) and closed by the

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on 26 September 1938. The line remains in use for passenger trains between York/Leeds and Blackpool, which run non-stop between

Hebden Bridge Hebden Bridge is a market town in the Upper Calder Valley in West Yorkshire, England. It is west of Halifax and 14 miles (21 km) north-east of Rochdale, at the confluence of the River Calder and the Hebden Water. The town is the largest ...

and

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, and also for trains between Manchester and Blackburn, via Todmorden, utilising the reinstated Todmorden Curve. With the re-opening of the Todmorden Curve, there is now a campaign to open a station again at Cornholme. The Campaign group CRAG (Cornholme Rail Action Group) have not stated where the new station would be located.

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Cornholme station (shown closed) on navigable 1947 O. S. map
Disused railway stations in Calderdale Former Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1878 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1938 {{Yorkshire-Humber-railstation-stub