Church & Oswaldtwistle railway station
Church & Oswaldtwistle railway station serves both the village of Church and the town of Oswaldtwistle, in Lancashire, England. The station is 5+1⁄3 miles east of Blackburn railway station, on the East Lancashire Line operated by Northern Trains.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Railway station
- Description: railway station in Lancashire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Church and Oswaldtwistle railway station”, “Church And Oswaldtwistle Railway Station”, “Church and Oswaldtwistle Station”, and “CTW”
- Wheelchair access: limited
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Church of St Andrew and Rhyddings.
Church of St Andrew
Church
Photo: Alexander P Kapp, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Church of St Andrew is situated 2,100 feet northeast of Church & Oswaldtwistle railway station.
Rhyddings
School
Rhyddings is a mixed secondary school in Oswaldtwistle in the English county of Lancashire. Rhyddings is situated 1,700 feet south of Church & Oswaldtwistle railway station.
St Paul
Church
Photo: Alexander P Kapp, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Paul is a church, which is situated 2,700 feet south of Church & Oswaldtwistle railway station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Church and Oswaldtwistle.
Church
Village
Photo: Alexander P Kapp, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Church is a large village in Hyndburn, Lancashire, England, situated one mile west of Accrington. The village had a population of 5,186 at the 2011 census, an increase from 3,990 according to the 2001 census.
Oswaldtwistle
Town
Photo: Alexander P Kapp, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Oswaldtwistle is a town in the Hyndburn borough of Lancashire, England, 3 miles southeast of Blackburn, contiguous with Accrington. The town has a rich industrial heritage, being home to James Hargreaves, inventor of the spinning jenny, and Robert "Parsley" Peel of calico printing fame.
Accrington
Photo: Benkid77, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Accrington is a town in East Lancashire. The town's main visitor attraction is the Tiffany glass collection in its art gallery, and the stark natural beauty of the Pennine moors all around.
Church & Oswaldtwistle railway station
- Categories: station and transportation
- Location: Hyndburn District, Lancashire, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.75054° or 53° 45′ 2″ northLongitude
-2.39089° or 2° 23′ 27″ westElevation
440 feet (134 metres)Operator
Northern TrainsNetwork
National RailAbbreviation
“CTW”Open location code
9C5VQJ25+6JOpenStreetMap ID
node 3715250482OpenStreetMap feature
public_transport=stationOpenStreetMap feature
railway=stationOpenStreetMap attribute
wheelchair=limitedGeoNames ID
6952301Wikidata ID
Q2191313
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to French—“Church & Oswaldtwistle railway station” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “station Church and Oswaldtwistle”
- Dutch: “Station Church and Oswaldtwistle”
- Egyptian Arabic: “محطة تشورتش اند اوسوالدتويستل”
- French: “Church and Oswaldtwistle”
- French: “gare de Church and Oswaldtwistle”
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Nearby Places
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Church & Oswaldtwistle railway station”. Photo: Alexander P Kapp, CC BY-SA 2.0.