Mill Hill (Lancashire) railway station

Mill Hill (Lancashire)
Location
Place	Mill Hill
Local authority	Blackburn with Darwen
Coordinates	53°44′06″N 2°30′07″W / 53.735°N 2.502°WCoordinates: 53°44′06″N 2°30′07″W / 53.735°N 2.502°W
Grid reference	SD670266
Operations
Station code	MLH
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	36,838
2005/06	39,895
2006/07	45,447
2007/08	42,619
2008/09	45,012
2009/10	54,230
2010/11	62,148
2011/12	70,338
2012/13	68,922
2013/14	71,416
2014/15	70,458
History
Original company	East Lancashire Railway
Pre-grouping	Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
Post-grouping	London Midland and Scottish Railway
1 December 1884	Opened[1]
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Mill Hill (Lancashire) from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Mill Hill railway station serves the Blackburn suburb of Mill Hill, England, 1 ¹⁄₄ miles (2.0 km) west of Blackburn railway station. It is an island platformed suburban station managed by Northern. It was opened by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway in 1884, almost forty years after the line itself. It was built to serve Blackburn's expanding western residential district and several nearby cotton mills.

It is unstaffed, with no permanent buildings other than basic shelters on the platform. No ticket vending facilities are provided, so passengers must buy tickets in advance or from the conductor on the train. Digital information screens and a P.A system are installed to give intending passengers train running information.

It has no step-free disabled access, with an entrance down a single flight of stairs from street level.^[2] From the street level above there are also direct bus services to Blackburn town centre.

Services

Monday to Saturdays, there is an hourly service from Mill Hill towards Preston and Blackpool South westbound and an hourly service to Blackburn, Burnley Central and Colne eastbound. A single morning peak service from York to Blackpool North also calls, along with a corresponding evening peak train to Leeds & York.

There is a two-hourly service in each direction on Sundays.^[3]

References

1. Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. p. 160. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199.
2. Mill Hill (Lancs) station facilities National Rail Enquiries; Retrieved 25 November 2016
3. Table 97 National Rail timetable, May 2016

External links

• Train times and station information for Mill Hill (Lancashire) railway station from National Rail