Darwen railway station
Darwen 
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Darwen railway station looking north in 2014
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| Location | |
| Place | Darwen |
| Local authority | Blackburn with Darwen |
| Coordinates | 53°41′53″N 2°27′54″W / 53.698°N 2.465°WCoordinates: 53°41′53″N 2°27′54″W / 53.698°N 2.465°W |
| Grid reference | SD694225 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | DWN |
| Managed by | Northern |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| DfT category | F1 |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2012/13 |
 0.309 million |
| 2013/14 |
0.319 million |
| 2014/15 |
0.327 million |
| 2015/16 |
 0.235 million |
| 2016/17 |
0.323 million |
| History | |
| Key dates | Opened 1847 |
| Original company | Bolton, Blackburn, Clitheroe and West Yorkshire Railway |
| Pre-grouping | Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway |
| Post-grouping | London, Midland and Scottish Railway |
| 3 August 1847 | Opened as Over Darwen |
| 1 December 1883 | Renamed Darwen |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Darwen from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Darwen railway station serves Darwen, a town in Lancashire, England. It was opened in 1847 by the Bolton, Blackburn, Clitheroe & West Yorkshire Railway, which was subsequently taken over by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway twelve years later. It is now served by Northern services on the Ribble Valley Line from Manchester Victoria/Bolton to Blackburn and into Clitheroe.
Darwen is set amongst the hills of East Lancashire. Arriving from or departing towards Bolton involves journeying through the long Sough Tunnel, some 2,015 yd (1,843 m) in length.
The railway line between Blackburn (Bolton Road) and Bolton was built by the Blackburn, Darwen and Bolton Railway, but it had amalgamated with the Blackburn, Clitheroe and North Western Junction Railway to form the Bolton, Blackburn, Clitheroe and West Yorkshire Railway by the time that the first section, from Blackburn to Sough, including the station at Over Darwen, 4 1⁄4 miles (6.8 km) from Blackburn, was opened on 3 August 1847. The station was renamed Darwen on 1 December 1883.
The neighbouring stations either side which also served the area, at Lower Darwen and Spring Vale, were both closed in 1958 and the nearest surviving station to the south is now Entwistle.
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