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Rochdale East Jct. - Bacup Station Jct.

Date Closed to Passenger Services

14 Dec 1949

Mileage Closed

8m 12c*

Stations Closed

Wardleworth; Shawclough & Healey; Broadley; Whitworth; Facit; Shawforth; Britannia (02/04/1917)

Services Operated

Rochdale - Bacup

Timetable Reference

B 1st May - 15th Jun 1947 574a

Cobb Atlas Reference

382 90 13 - 86 22

Present Status

Dismantled

Map

RCH Lancashire & Cheshire Districts 1933

Further Notes

TCD - Mon 16/06/1947.  No Sunday service, LTR - Sat 14/06/1947. Closed due to coal shortages, later made permanent, hence CPLGB, PNM 1980 p14, DRS & RPSGB all give this date as ACD.

OCD - Wed 14/12/1949 - C; DSW.

A detailed account appears on DSW The Facit Branch: Rochdale to Bacup. It does state last train ran "Saturday 16 June 1947", but this was a Monday, Saturday being the 14th. It also confirms OCD as "the decision not to reinstate the passenger trains was announced on 14 December 1949". 

A good example of the complexities of pinning down "Official Closure Dates". In this case the date must be taken as the day of the official announcement, which happened to be a Wednesday. 

*RCH L&CD 1933.

 

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