Rochdale–Bacup line

The Rochdale to Bacup Line
Station Listing Rochdale Wardleworth Shawclough and Healey Broadley Whitworth Facit Shawforth Britannia Bacup

The Rochdale to Bacup line was a railway line which ran between Rochdale in Greater Manchester and Bacup in Lancashire. It opened in two stages, from Rochdale to Facit in 1870, and from Facit to Bacup in 1881. There was an engine shed at the Bacup end of the line.

Passenger trains were withdrawn from the line in 1947, although the section from Rochdale to Facit remained open to goods trains until 1963 and to Whitworth until 1967.

References

• Lost Railways of Lancashire by Gordon Suggitt

External links

• British Railways in 1960, Rochdale to Bacup