Update on rail works in the Summer

New timetables are now available for the six week rail works at Darwen.

Customers travelling between Clitheroe and Manchester are being urged to check before they travel ahead of a £14m upgrade of the railway between Clitheroe and Manchester.

Network Rail will be delivering improvements on the line, meaning there will be no train services between Blackburn and Bolton from 17 July until 24 August 2015.

Funded by the Lancashire Local Enterprise Partnership and Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council, the improvements will see an additional track installed for one mile either side of Darwen Station. This will provide the necessary capacity for a more reliable, frequent service throughout the day between Manchester and Blackburn, with two trains per hour by 2017.

Timetables for the stations during the rail works can be downloaded on line:  http://www.northernrail.org/pdfs/Blackburn-blockade-timetable.pdf

There will be bus replacements between Blackburn and Bolton (calling at Hall I’th Wood, Bromley Cross and Darwen).

For those travelling from Blackburn, there will still be a direct rail service from Blackburn to Manchester but via Burnley. Details are available here http://www.northernrail.org/todmorden-curve

For the latest travel information visit nationalrail.co.uk/blackburn or northernrail.org/blackburn