Rufford railway station
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Rufford railway station, opened on 2 April 1849, serves the village of Rufford in Lancashire, England. The station is (9½ miles) south west of Preston on the Preston-Ormskirk branch service. The line was formerly the Liverpool, Ormskirk and Preston Railway, which was quickly merged into the East Lancashire Railway on 3 August 1846; this in turn was merged into the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway in May 1859.
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Location | Rufford, West Lancashire England | ||||
Grid reference | SD466156 | ||||
Managed by | Northern Trains | ||||
Platforms | 2 | ||||
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Station code | RUF | ||||
Classification | DfT category F2 | ||||
History | |||||
Opened | 1849 | ||||
Passengers | |||||
2018/19 | 15,608 | ||||
2019/20 | 21,836 | ||||
2020/21 | 4,144 | ||||
2021/22 | 16,060 | ||||
2022/23 | 17,674 | ||||
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The level crossing runs across the B5246, the aptly named "Station Road". This is supervised from the nearby signal box, which also controls the only passing loop on the otherwise single track branch line.