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Several stations on the Settle & Carlisle line spent some years closed, before being reopened again in the same location. Kirkby Stephen is one of those, as is Dent.
The original Upholland station was on a different site, opened by the Liverpool and Bury Railway on 20 November 1848. Another station opened by the same company on the same day was Pemberton.
Most eastbound trains passing through Rainford continue beyond Manchester, to Todmorden and Blackburn, though the last train of the day terminates at Wigan.
A previous resident of the Grade II listed building called Friars Lawn in Norwood Green is the actress Hayley Mills, who made her film debut in "Tiger Bay" in 1959. In this film, she got on the Transporter Bridge in Newport and got off it in Cardiff!