Rawtenstall to Bacup Line

Railways in Rossendale

Legend
Bacup
Stacksteads
Britannia
Waterfoot
Shawforth
Clough Fold
Facit
Whitworth
to Rochdale
to Accrington
Rawtenstall
Haslingden
Ewood Bridge & Edenfield
Helmshore
Irwell Vale
East Lancashire Railway
Stubbins
to Bury

The Rawtenstall to Bacup railway line opened in two stages, from Rawtenstall to Waterfoot in 1848, and from Waterfoot to Bacup in 1852. Passenger and freight services operated until the Beeching cuts in 1966.

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