Littleborough railway station

Littleborough National Rail
Location
Place Littleborough
Local authority Rochdale
Grid reference SD938162
Operations
Station code LTL
Managed by Northern
Number of platforms 2
DfT category F2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05  0.212 million
2005/06 Increase 0.224 million
2006/07 Decrease 0.211 million
2007/08 Increase 0.237 million
2008/09 Increase 0.358 million
2009/10 Decrease 0.344 million
2010/11 Increase 0.354 million
2011/12 Increase 0.384 million
2012/13 Decrease 0.376 million
2013/14 Decrease 0.369 million
2014/15 Increase 0.381 million
History
Key dates Opened 1839 (1839)
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Littleborough from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Littleborough railway station serves the small town of Littleborough in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England.

It lies on the Caldervale Line 13¾ miles (22 km) north of Manchester Victoria towards Halifax, Bradford Interchange and Leeds.

This is the last station on the Caldervale Line in the Greater Manchester area. It was one of the original Manchester and Leeds Railway station sites and for the first year of operation following its opening in July 1839, it was the temporary terminus of the line from Manchester (the section on through the Summit Tunnel towards Mirfield not being completed until 1841).[1] It did so again for some eight months after the December 1984 Summit Tunnel fire - passengers transferring between the trains to/from Manchester and a rail-replacement bus service onwards to Todmorden until repairs to the tunnel could be completed and the line reopened.

Services

Station approach
Northern Rail 144007 leaving Platform 2 with a Manchester Victoria to Leeds service in 2009

Monday to Saturday daytimes, there is a half-hourly service from Littleborough to Manchester Victoria westbound and to Todmorden eastbound, with trains running alternately to Leeds via Dewsbury and to Blackburn via Burnley Manchester Road (the latter beginning at the May 2015 timetable change). In the evenings and on Sundays, trains to Leeds operate via Halifax rather than Dewsbury, though the basic service pattern remains the same.[2]

References

  1. Bairstow, M. (1983), The Manchester & Leeds Railway (The Calder Valley Line), Wyvern Publishing, Skipton, ISBN 0-907941-06-0; p.12
  2. GB National Rail Timetable May 2015 Edition, Table 41

External links

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Railways in Rochdale

Legend
 Past, present and future 
Rossendale Lines
to Bacup

Calderdale Lines
to Calderdale

Broadley
Littleborough
Shawclough
and Healey
Smithy Bridge
Wardleworth

Rochdale
Newbold
Rochdale
Town Centre
Kingsway
Business Park

Milnrow
East Lancs Rly
to Bury

Newhey
Broadfield
Oldham Lines
to Oldham

East Lancashire RailwayHeywood
Castleton
Mills Hill
Middleton
Manchester Lines North
to Manchester

Preceding station National Rail Following station
Smithy Bridge   Northern
Caldervale Line
  Walsden
    Todmorden

Coordinates: 53°38′34″N 2°05′41″W / 53.6429°N 2.0947°W / 53.6429; -2.0947


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