Ribble Valley line

Ribble Valley line
Clitheroe railway station, on the Ribble Valley line
Overview
Status	Operational
Owner	Network Rail
Locale	Lancashire Greater Manchester Blackburn North West England
Stations	14
Service
System	National Rail
Rolling stock	Class 150 Class 153 Class 156 Class 158
Technical
Track gauge	4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Route map (Click to expand)

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Legend
Settle–Carlisle line to Carlisle Hellifield Leeds–Morecambe line to Skipton Newsholme Stock Beck viaduct Gisburn Tunnel Gisburn Rimington Swanside viaduct Chatburn Horrocksford Clitheroe Primrose viaduct Whalley Whalley viaduct Langho Wilpshire tunnel Wilpshire for Ribchester Ramsgreave and Wilpshire Cob Wall viaduct Daisyfield East Lancashire line to Colne Blackburn tunnel Blackburn Blackburn Bolton Road East Lancashire line to Preston Lower Darwen M65 motorway Hoddlesden Goosehouse Hollins Darwen Spring Vale Sough tunnel Walton's Siding Entwistle Bradshaw Brook viaduct Turton and Edgworth King William Bromley Cross The Oaks Astley Bridge Hall i' th' Wood Halliwell Tonge viaduct Craddock Lane Croal viaduct Bradshawgate tunnel Manchester–Preston line to Preston Bolton non-stop section Salford Crescent Salford Central Manchester Victoria

The Ribble Valley line is a railway line that runs from Manchester Victoria through Blackburn, in Lancashire, to Hellifield in North Yorkshire. Regular passenger services normally run as far as Clitheroe, but occasional passenger services run the whole line through north Lancashire to Hellifield, where it joins the Settle–Carlisle line. The line passes over the distinctive 48-span Whalley Viaduct.

The line north of Blackburn was closed to a regular passenger service from September 1962, but remained open for freight, passenger diversions and the occasional DalesRail service. However, in 1994, services between Blackburn and Clitheroe were reinstated after a public campaign. Reopening the line for passengers between Clitheroe and Hellifield has been mentioned in some reports and newspapers to provide connections on the Settle Carlisle line, with the most recent being a business case for the proposal being granted government funds in 2020.