Whalley railway station

Whalley railway station serves the village of Whalley in Lancashire, England. The station lies on the Ribble Valley Line 7 ¹⁄₄ miles (11.7 km) north of Blackburn. The station has two platforms, slightly offset from each other. It is unstaffed, with shelters on each platform.[1] Immediately beyond its eastern end, the line crosses the River Calder on a 678 yards (620 m) long, brick viaduct of 48 arches.[2]

Whalley
Location	Whalley, Ribble Valley England
Grid reference	SD729365
Managed by	Northern Trains
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	WHE
Classification	DfT category F2
History
Opened	May 1994
Passengers
2015/16	71,782
2016/17	83,182
2017/18	78,720
2018/19	76,684
2019/20	86,134
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

History

The station was opened on 22 June 1850 by the Bolton, Blackburn, Clitheroe and West Yorkshire Railway when it opened the line from Daisyfield, near Blackburn to Hellifield Junction, just south of Hellifield.[3][4] The station was host to a LMS caravan from 1934 to 1936.[5]

It was closed on 10 September 1962 by the British Transport Commission, but reopened with the rest of the line on 29 May 1994.[3]

Facilities

There are no ticket buying facilities at the station, these must be bought on the train, or prior to travel. However, there are customer help points on both platforms, automated train running announcements and timetable information posters are provided. Step free access is only available on the Manchester bound platform.[6]

Services

There is generally an hourly service daily (including Sundays) northbound to Clitheroe and southbound to Blackburn, and Manchester Victoria and on to Rochdale, with extra trains during peak hours.[7]

On Sundays in the summer, one or two 'Dalesrail' trains operate from Preston or Blackpool North along the Ribble Valley Line via Clitheroe to Hellifield, and onwards towards Settle and Carlisle. These also run in winter but terminate at Hellifield, where connections for stations to Carlisle can be made.

References

1. Whalley Station (looking east) Heaton, Chris Geograph.org; Retrieved 25 November 2016
2. "Whalley Viaduct" Engineering Timelines; Retrieved 25 November 2016
3. Quick, Michael (2019) [2001]. Railway passenger stations in Great Britain: a chronology (PDF) (5th ed.). Railway and Canal Historical Society.
4. Grant, Donald J. (2017). Directory of the Railway Companies of Great Britain (1st ed.). Kibworth Beauchamp, Leicestershire: Troubador Publishing Ltd. p. 52. ISBN 978-1-78803-768-6.
5. McRae, Andrew (1997). British Railway Camping Coach Holidays: The 1930s & British Railways (London Midland Region). Scenes from the Past: 30 (Part One). Foxline. p. 22. ISBN 1-870119-48-7.
6. Whalley (Lancs) station facilities National Rail Enquiries; Retrieved 25 November 2016
7. Table 94 National Rail timetable, May 2018

External links

• Train times and station information for Whalley railway station from National Rail
• The history of Whalley Railway Station - Ribble Valley Railway