Ramsgreave and Wilpshire railway station explained

Ramsgreave & Wilpshire
Symbol Location:gb
Symbol:rail
Borough:Ramsgreave, Ribble Valley
Country:England
Grid Name:Grid reference
Manager:Northern Trains
Platforms:2
Code:RGW
Classification:DfT category F2
Opened:May 1994
Footnotes:Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road
Mapframe:yes
Mapframe-Zoom:14

Ramsgreave and Wilpshire is a railway station on the Ribble Valley Line that serves the villages/suburbs of Ramsgreave and Wilpshire, just north of Blackburn in Lancashire, England. The station is NaNmiles north of Blackburn railway station.

The present station was built south of the original Wilpshire station which served the Ribble Valley Line until its closure just before the Beeching Axe in 1962. When the line was re opened in 1994 a new site had to be found, due to the construction of houses which blocked access to the old station. The platforms which served as the old Wilpshire Station (also known as "Wilpshire for Ribchester") can still be seen.[1]

Facilities

The station is unstaffed, but has a ticket machine on the south platform, as of 2020. There are waiting shelters and customer help points on each platform; automatic announcements also provide real-time train running information. The ramps to both platforms have steps, so no step-free access is available.[2]

Services

The station is operated by Northern Trains, and is served by a daily hourly service northbound to Clitheroe and southbound to Blackburn and Manchester Victoria, with extra trains during the morning peak.

On Saturdays (June 2024 onwards) two trains operate from Rochdale through Manchester Victoria and along the Ribble Valley Line via Clitheroe and Hellifield and onwards towards Ribblehead. (This replaces the previous Dales Rail service from Blackpool/Preston to Hellifield and Carlisle).

External links

53.78°N -2.479°W

Notes and References

  1. https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4090120 Wilpshire Station
  2. http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations/RGW/details.html Ramsgreave and Wilpshire station facilities