Lower Darwen railway station
- Lower Darwen railway station
Infobox UK disused station
name = Lower Darwen
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caption =
manager = Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway[cite web | url=http://library-2.lse.ac.uk/collections/pamphlets/document_service/HE1_42/E0000009/doc.pdf | title=Passengers No More 1952 - 1962 | author=G. Daniels & L. Dench | edition=2nd | year=1963 | month=February | accessdate=2008-03-21 | publisher=GLO ] ]
owner = London, Midland and Scottish Railway
locale = Lower Darwen
borough = Blackburn with Darwen, Lancashire
platforms =
years = 18??
events = Opened
years2 = 1958
events2 = Closed to passengers
years3 =
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Lower Darwen railway station was a railway station that served the village of Lower Darwen, in Lancashire. The station was built by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway in the 19th century and closed on 3 November 1958[cite book | title=Lancashire's Lost Railways | last=James | first=David | isbn=978-1-84033-288-9 | oclc=56002103 | year=2004 | publisher=Stenlake Publishing | location=Catrine, Ayrshire ] by British Rail, and subsequently was demolished. The station was located to the north of the B6231 [cite web | url=http://www.npemap.org.uk/tiles/map.html#368,424,1 | title=New Popular Edition Maps] Fore Street, which the railway crosses on Rakes Bridge. The line on which the station was situated remains open with services between Clitheroe/Blackburn and Manchester Victoria being operated by Northern Rail.]Lower Darwen motive power depot, which closed in the 1960s, was located to the north of the station, near the Ewood area of Blackburn.[cite book | title=Blackburn's Railways in the 1950s and 60s | last=Taylor | first=Stuart | isbn=978-1-870119-84-9 | location=Bredbury, Cheshire | publisher=Foxline (Publications) ] ]References
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