Littleborough railway station

Littleborough
National Rail
General information
LocationLittleborough, Rochdale
England
Grid referenceSD938162
Managed byNorthern
Platforms2
Other information
Station codeLTL
ClassificationDfT category F2
History
Opened1839
Passengers
2018/19Increase 0.467 million
2019/20Increase 0.483 million
2020/21Decrease 84,514
2021/22Increase 0.259 million
2022/23Increase 0.307 million
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Littleborough railway station serves the town of Littleborough in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England.

It lies on the Calder Valley line 13¾ miles (22 km) north of Manchester Victoria towards Halifax, Bradford Interchange and Leeds.

This is the last station on the Caldervale Line in the Greater Manchester area. It was one of the original Manchester and Leeds Railway station sites and for the first year of operation following its opening in July 1839, it was the temporary terminus of the line from Manchester (the section on through the Summit Tunnel towards Mirfield not being completed until 1841).[1] It did so again for some eight months after the December 1984 Summit Tunnel fire - passengers transferring between the trains to/from Manchester and a rail-replacement bus service onwards to Todmorden until repairs to the tunnel could be completed and the line reopened.

  1. ^ Bairstow, M. (1983), The Manchester & Leeds Railway (The Calder Valley Line), Wyvern Publishing, Skipton, ISBN 0-907941-06-0; p.12