General information | |||||
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Location | Littleborough, Rochdale England | ||||
Grid reference | SD938162 | ||||
Managed by | Northern | ||||
Platforms | 2 | ||||
Other information | |||||
Station code | LTL | ||||
Classification | DfT category F2 | ||||
History | |||||
Opened | 1839 | ||||
Passengers | |||||
2018/19 | 0.467 million | ||||
2019/20 | 0.483 million | ||||
2020/21 | 84,514 | ||||
2021/22 | 0.259 million | ||||
2022/23 | 0.307 million | ||||
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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.