Roebuck railway station served the village of

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 Lancashire ( , ; abbreviated Lancs) is the name of a historic county, ceremonial county, and non-metropolitan county in North West England. The boundaries of these three areas differ significantly. The non-metropolitan county of Lancashi ...

, England, from 1840 to 1849 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 ra ...

History

The station opened on 26 June 1840 by the

. It was named after what is now the Roebuck Hotel. It was replaced by , which opened to the north, in August 1849.

References

Disused railway stations in the Borough of Wyre Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1840 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1849 1840 establishments in England 1849 disestablishments in England {{NorthWestEngland-railstation-stub