Burnley Manchester Road is the main railway station in Burnley, Lancashire, England. It is situated on the Calder Valley Line east of , near to the route's junction with the East Lancashire Line. History On 12 November 1849, the Manchester and Leeds Railway opened a single line branch – doubled in 1860 – from Todmorden to Burnley. The first station in the town, which was at Thorneybank, was replaced by Burnley Manchester Road in 1866. It had two stone platforms, a modest single-storey main building on the eastbound ("up") side and a smaller waiting room with toilets on the opposite side. This closed to passenger traffic on 6 November 1961, and to goods in April 1973. The platforms were subsequently demolished, but the main building was retained and used as industrial premises. The station was reopened (with new timber platforms) in September 1986, two years after the successful re-introduction of year-round services between Leeds and Preston/Blackpool North. The old station building was eventually demolished in 2013. The town currently has three other railway stations, , and , on the East Lancashire Line which diverges from the Caldervale Line at Gannow Junction west of the town centre. Services On weekdays, the station is served by Northern semi-fast services from Blackpool North or Preston to Leeds and York via the Caldervale Line. Currently (December 2018) there is an hourly service in each direction each weekday. On Sundays there is now also an hourly service (from mid-morning onwards) each since the May 2009 timetable change. From 17 May 2015 an hourly service between Blackburn and Manchester Victoria serves the station seven days a week. This calls at Accrington and Rose Grove, then Todmorden and most local stations to Manchester (except and , which are only served on Sundays). Most trains also continue to and . 2013 Engineering work Eastbound services (i.e. toward Hebden Bridge) were suspended for 5 months from November 2013 until the end of March 2014 whilst Network Rail carried out major repairs to Holme Tunnel (near to the site of the old Holme station). The 265-yard (250 m) long structure had been subject to a permanent 20 mph speed restriction for many years due to earth movement in the surrounding ground that had damaged the tunnel lining and eastern portal (steel supports were installed for most of the way along the tunnel bore since the mid-1980s to prevent further deterioration).