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====Original stations==== Many stations on this route have been closed (or are not served by the Calder Valley line trains): original stations served and other notes on the route: * ''Hall Royd Junction'': see above; there are now no stations on the route before Burnley; stations once served, and notes on the route: * here is the junction with the original line from Todmorden (to Burnley), forming a triangle (closed 1972, but reopened in 2015). * [[Stansfield Hall railway station|Stansfield Hall]] station opened 1869, closed July 1944 * here is ''Kitsonwood Tunnel'' (290 yards) * Nott Wood (Lydgate) viaduct * [[Cornholme railway station|Cornholme]] station closed to all traffic 26 September 1938 * [[Portsmouth railway station (West Yorkshire)|Portsmouth]] closed 7 July 1958 * Copy Pit summit (749 ft) * Holme Tunnel (265 yards) * [[Holme railway station (Lancashire)|Holme]]: closed 28 July 1930 * Towneley Tunnel (398 yards) * [[Towneley railway station|Towneley]]: serving the nearby ''Towneley Hall'', closed 4 August 1952 * [[Burnley Manchester Road railway station|Burnley Manchester Road]] station: (there are also ''Burnley Barracks'' and ''Burnley Central'' see below) * Gannow Junction where the line joins from Colne, Nelson, Brierfield, Burnley Central and Burnley Barracks * [[Rose Grove railway station|Rose Grove]] has an island platform with 2 disused bay platforms. * here was the ''Rose Grove Junction'' for the [[North Lancashire Loop]], an alternative route to Blackburn via [[Padiham railway station|Padiham]], [[Simonstone railway station|Simonstone]] and [[Great Harwood railway station|Great Harwood]] (closed to passengers 2 December 1957) * [[Hapton railway station|Hapton]] * [[Huncoat railway station|Huncoat]] * [[Accrington railway station|Accrington]] * here was the triangular junction for the line to [[Bury, Greater Manchester|Bury]] (closed 5 December 1966) * [[Church and Oswaldtwistle railway station|Church and Oswaldtwistle]] * [[Rishton railway station|Rishton]] * Rishton Tunnel * here was the other end of the line from Burnley at ''Great Harwood Junction'' * Blackburn Tunnel
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