Huncoat railway station is a railway station which serves the village of

Huncoat Huncoat is a village in Lancashire, England; situated in the North West England, North West. It is located to the east of Accrington. It is a ward of Hyndburn where the population taken at the United Kingdom Census 2011, 2011 census was 4,418. ...

, between

Accrington Accrington is a town in the Hyndburn borough of Lancashire, England. It lies about east of Blackburn, west of Burnley, east of Preston, north of Manchester and is situated on the culverted River Hyndburn. Commonly abbreviated by locals to ...

and

Burnley Burnley () is a town and the administrative centre of the wider Borough of Burnley in Lancashire, England, with a 2021 population of 78,266. It is north of Manchester and east of Preston, at the confluence of the River Calder and River B ...

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, England. The station is east of

Blackburn railway station Blackburn railway station serves the town of Blackburn, in Lancashire, England. It is east of Preston; it is managed and served by Northern Trains. History There has been a station on the current site since 1846, when the Blackburn and P ...

on the East Lancashire Line operated by

Northern Trains Northern Trains, Trade name, trading as Northern, is a British train operating company that operates Commuter rail, commuter and Inter-city rail, medium-distance intercity services in the North of England. It is owned by DfT Operator for the Dep ...

. The village's first station was opened in September 1848 by the East Lancashire Railway slightly to the east, but it was relocated to its present site by the

Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (L&YR) was a major History of rail transport in Great Britain, British railway company before the Railways Act 1921, 1923 Grouping. It was Incorporation (business)#Incorporation in the United Kingdom, incorpo ...

in 1902. or 1880s A nearby colliery and power station were both served by the station and railway for many years, but the pit closed in 1968 and the power plant in 1984. The site is now a nature trail. The distinctive tall signal box, that once supervised the colliery sidings, avoided closure when the line was re-signalled in 1973, being retained to supervised the

level crossing A level crossing is an intersection where a railway line crosses a road, Trail, path, or (in rare situations) airport runway, at the same level, as opposed to the railway line or the road etc. crossing over or under using an Overpass#Railway, o ...

at the west end of the station. It was finally closed in November 2014, and subsequently demolished when the crossing was automated. The station is unstaffed, with ticket vending facilities, There are shelters on each platform and step-free access to each one; along with passenger information screens and a long line PA system to provide running details to passengers.

Services

Monday to Saturday, there is an hourly service from Huncoat to

and

Colne Colne () is a market town and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the Borough of Pendle in Lancashire, England. The town is northeast of Nelson, Lancashire, Nelson, northeast of Burnley and east of Preston, Lancashire, Preston. The ...

(eastbound) and Preston via

and Blackburn (westbound). On Sundays, there is a two-hourly service in each direction, with through running to and from . Between 14 May 2012 and 10 July 2013, Huncoat was a

request stop In public transport, a request stop, flag stop, or whistle stop is a bus stop, stop or train station, station at which buses or trains, respectively, stop only on request; that is, only if there are passengers or freight to be picked up or drop ...

."All trains to stop at Huncoat again"
Morrison, Michael; Lancashire Evening Telegraph article 10 July 2013; Retrieved 20 November 2016

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{{Borough of Hyndburn culture Railway stations in Hyndburn DfT Category F2 stations Former Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway stations Railway stations served by Northern Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1848