Cherry Tree railway station

Cherry Tree railway station serves Cherry Tree in the Blackburn with Darwen borough of Lancashire, England. The station is 1.9 miles (3 km) southwest of Blackburn railway station. It is managed by Northern, who also provide all the passenger services calling there. The station is a two-platform stop situated on the A674 road for Blackburn and was opened soon after the Blackburn to Preston line, in 1847. The former Lancashire Union Railway branch line to Chorley, Wigan and St Helens Shaw Street (opened in 1869) diverged a short distance to the west of the station, but this closed to passengers on 4 January 1960 and completely in 1966. The station is unstaffed, and all of its permanent buildings except shelters on both platforms were demolished. Only the western end of each platform is now used, with the sections east of the bridge on both sides now derelict. A Community Rail Lancashire and local authority-sponsored cleanup and repair project was carried out by local schoolchildren, college students, volunteers and council workers in 2014. The station has a long-line PA system and digital information screens in place to provide train-running information. It also has full step-free access to both platforms for disabled passengers. In January 2018 new touchscreen ticket machines were installed in stations on this line, including Cherry Tree.

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St Bede's Roman Catholic High School, Blackburn

St Bede's RC High School is a coeducational Roman Catholic secondary school located in Blackburn in the English county of Lancashire. It is a voluntary aided school administered by Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Salford. The school offers GCSEs and BTECs as programmes of study for pupils, and was extensively refurbished in 2013.

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River Blakewater, Lancashire

The River Blakewater is a river running through Lancashire, originally giving the name to the town of Blackburn, which meant dark coloured stream. However, the river gradually became known as Blackwater. The Blakewater rises on the moors above Guide near Blackburn as Knuzden Brook and runs through the hamlet of that name, before taking the name Blakewater (meaning either "black water" or "clear water," the latter deriving from Old English blæc) near the village of Whitebirk. From there, the river runs through the Blackburn areas of Little Harwood, Cob Wall and Brookhouse to Blackburn town centre. The section of the Blakewater running through Blackburn town centre was culverted during the Industrial Revolution, and now runs underground. The culvert was extensively modified in the 1960s during the redevelopment of the town centre - it now runs underneath Ainsworth Street and between Blackburn Cathedral and Blackburn Bus Station. In recent years, the town has undergone a phase of regeneration with future proposals to open up parts of the culverted river so that the Blakewater will once again flow openly through areas of the town centre. On the western side of the town centre the Blakewater continues under Whalley Banks and through the Redlam area. The Blakewater joins the River Darwen outside Witton Country Park in Blackburn, which continues on to join the River Ribble at Walton-le-Dale. In addition to the aforementioned Knuzden Brook, the waters of the Blakewater are swelled by Little Harwood Brook (coming from Sunny Bower), Audley Brook (from the region of Queen's Park to the confluence near Darwen Street) and Snig Brook (which rises near Lammack and runs through Corporation Park).

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Mill Hill, Blackburn with Darwen

Mill Hill is a suburb and electoral ward of Blackburn, in the unitary authority of Blackburn with Darwen, within the ceremonial county of Lancashire, England. It lies to the southwest of Blackburn town centre and is primarily residential in nature, with a mix of Victorian terraces and more modern housing developments.

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Mill Hill railway station (Lancashire)

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. 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. From the street level above there are also direct bus services to Blackburn town centre. It is the nearest station to Ewood Park, the home of Blackburn Rovers.

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