Burnley Central railway station
Burnley Central 
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| Location | |
| Place | Burnley |
| Local authority | Burnley |
| Grid reference | SD839330 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | BNC |
| Managed by | Northern |
| Number of platforms | 1 |
| DfT category | E |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 0.150 million |
| – Interchange |
36 |
| 2012/13 |
 0.140 million |
| – Interchange |
30 |
| 2013/14 |
0.150 million |
| – Interchange |
9 |
| 2014/15 |
0.145 million |
| – Interchange |
3 |
| 2015/16 |
0.128 million |
| – Interchange |
5 |
| History | |
| 1 December 1848 | Station opened |
| November 1871 | renamed Burnley Bank Top |
| 2 October 1944 | renamed Burnley Central |
| 1964 | Station rebuilt |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Burnley Central from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Burnley Central railway station is a station in the town of Burnley, Lancashire and is on the East Lancashire Line. It is managed by Northern, which also provides its passenger service.
Following the singling of the track in 1986, Burnley Central has one platform in use, together with a small ticket office, waiting area and public address facility. There are information boards at the entrance of the station and in the booking hall, along with passenger information screens on the platform. The booking office is staffed on weekday mornings and early afternoons only - at other times, tickets must be purchased on the train (there being no ticket vending machines available). It is fully accessible to disabled travellers, with a ramp from the entrance to the waiting room/ticket office & platform.
It was opened by the East Lancashire Railway in 1848 as part of its route from Bury and Blackburn to Colne, where an end-on junction was made with the Leeds and Bradford Extension Railway line from Skipton that had been completed several months earlier. The service from Colne through the station to Manchester Victoria via Accrington and Bury was well used from the outset by the owners of the local cotton mills, who travelled from their homes in the area to make their purchases of raw cotton at the Royal Exchange several times each week. It was also possible to travel from the station by direct train to Blackpool, Liverpool and Skipton and even through to London Euston via Blackburn, Manchester Victoria and Stockport.
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