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Platform tickets will be available to view the Scotsman at stations. It will cost £5 to access the Bolton Street station at Bury and £3 for Ramsbottom, Rawtenstall and Heywood.
Here are just 6 local railway stations that were abandoned or disused in Lancashire.
MORE than 600 crimes, including sexual offences, robbery and violence, have been committed at railway stations in East Lancashire over the past four years. But the number of incidents taking place ...
HEYWOOD'S new commuter line will run from a brand new railway station. That’s the plan if the long awaited heavy rail scheme, developing the East Lancashire Railway into a commuter line, finally ...
EAST Lancashire's steam railway line could soon be used for regular train services, it has been revealed.
The East Lancashire Railway operates from Bolton Street Station in Bury, Gtr Manchester and was opened in 1987. It runs on a 12.5-mile line between Heywood in Greater Manchester and Rawtenstall in ...
A £12m plan to turn East Lancashire Railway into the "best heritage railway in the UK" is approved.
BOSSES at the East Lancashire Railway (ELR) have confirmed services have again hit the buffers for the second national lockdown.
About 40 East Lancashire Railway carriage windows were smashed in Bury.
The East Lancashire Railway has launched a campaign to raise £1.3m to maintain a viaduct along its 12-mile line. The organisation, which runs a railway line between Heywood in Greater Manchester ...
Visitors to East Lancashire Railway have been given the opportunity to ride up and down the 12-and-a-half-mile (20km) heritage railway line, which runs between Heywood and Bury in Greater ...