Mill Hill railway station (Lancashire)

This article is about the railway station in Lancashire. For the similar-named station in Greater Manchester, see Mills Hill railway station.

Mill Hill railway station serves Mill Hill in the Blackburn with Darwen borough in Lancashire, England. It is 1+1⁄4 miles (2.0 km) west of Blackburn railway station. It is an island platformed station managed by Northern. It was opened by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway in 1884, almost forty years after the line itself.

Mill Hill (Lancashire)
General information
Location	Mill Hill, Blackburn with Darwen England
Coordinates	53.735°N 2.502°W / 53.735; -2.502
Grid reference	SD670266
Managed by	Northern
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	MLH
Classification	DfT category F2
History
Original company	East Lancashire Railway
Pre-grouping	Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
Post-grouping	London Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
1 December 1884	Opened[1]
Passengers
2019/20	72,962
2020/21	23,692
2021/22	61,612
2022/23	59,824
2023/24	62,750
Notes Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

It is unstaffed, with no permanent buildings other than basic shelters on the platform. Digital information screens and a P.A system are installed to give intending passengers train running information.

As of January 2018, along with other stations on this line, a new touch screen ticket machine was added to the Station.

It has no step-free disabled access, with an entrance down a single flight of stairs from street level.^[2] From the street level above there are also direct bus services to Blackburn town centre.

Services

Monday to Saturdays, there is an hourly service from Mill Hill towards Preston westbound and an hourly service to Blackburn, Burnley Central and Colne eastbound. A single morning peak service from York to Preston also calls, along with a corresponding evening peak train to Leeds.

There is a two-hourly service in each direction on Sundays.^[3]