Date: 23/09/2012

A PROPOSED fin feature for a new train station building in Burnley has been branded as “hideous” and “rubbish” by local councillors. The latest Burnley Council Development Control Committee meeting saw a row emerge over the designs for the redevelopment of Manchester Road Railway Station. Planning permission was granted in March this year for the improvement of the station, by the refurbishment of the old building. However, new proposals were then placed to demolish the old building entirely, and construct a new station building on the same footprint, which would include manned ticket facilities, an improved pedestrian entrance, new car parking and a new platform waiting shelter. [From Mark Bartlett]

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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