Date: 18/03/2012

A RAILWAY station is to be transformed, paving the way for much faster transport links from Burnley to Manchester. The improvements, which could cost up to £2M, anticipate an a “significant increase” in passengers at the Manchester Road station, already the busiest in the town. It will get a manned ticket office, new canopies and passenger shelters, an improved entrance and an additional 49 car parking spaces. [From Mark Bartlett]

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Transformation plans unveiled for railway station in Burnley

Lancashire Telegraph

A RAILWAY station is to be transformed, paving the way for much faster transport links from Burnley to Manchester.

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Burnley Manchester Road reopened in 1986, following the successful reintroduction of passenger trains on the Copy Pit line between Lancashire and West Yorkshire two years previously. This view, from the very long access ramp to Platform 1, looks towards Gannow Junction and Rose Grove and shows the new platforms alongside the original station building, closed in 1961 and no longer used by the railway.
Location: Burnley Manchester Road
Company: Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
24/04/2010 Mark Bartlett

Looking up the bank towards Copy Pit summit from Burnley Manchester Road. Steam freights were always banked in both directions on this steeply graded line but the Blackpool-York 158s are well on top of the job. A sizeable group waits for 158756 coasting in to the rebuilt station on the 1857 service to Blackpool.
Location: Burnley Manchester Road
Company: Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
24/04/2010 Mark Bartlett