The line clossed on 5th December 1966. Bacup engine shed originally stood in the place that you can now see the cattle docks on the right in the picture above. When the Facit line was being extended into Bacup the station was remodelled and the shed moved to its new site. Which was on the line to Rochdale about half a mile up New Line.The platform was also remodelled at the same time and was made into a covered platform with a track on either side with  offices facing onto Rockliffe Road. The goods yard was situated behind what was Inda Mill.being 601 Odin, 603 Clio and 618 Titan. They were built at Bury in 1867 and later altered to Tender Engines. Also seen at Bacup was the Aspinall which were seen on the Bacup to Bury lines until around 1956. A report in April 1912 gave the following figures for the railways of the United Kingdom. All told, there were 1,070 fatalities during the year and the number of persons injured was 8.345. But these figures include the employees of the companies and the considerable number of persons who trespass on the railways. Taking passengers only, the number killed was 106, and the non fatal accidents 2,725, which was a decrease upon the previous year. But the accidents to railway servants showed an upward tendency and reached the formidable totals of 390 fatalities and 5,311 cases of injury. As is usually the case, most of the victims of these accidents were shunters, goods guards, or brakemen. In addition there were 574 deaths including suicides and 309 cases of injury among other persons than passengers and railway employees.

On the 25th September 1852 the local newspaper announced “ It is expected that the line of railway from Newchurch to Bacup will open shortly for traffic in a few days. Already the services of the greater portion of the navvies employed on the work have been dispensed with, and the inhabitants of the district do not regret the departure of these rough colonists, who in their occasional bacchanalian hilarity disturbed the peace and alarmed the quiet inhabitants of the district”. The line from Rawtenstall to Waterfoot or Newchurch has it was known at the time had been opend t0 passengers since the 27th March 1852. Faced with the obstruction of the " Thrutch Gorge" or better known today by the name of  "The Glen" it was another four years before passenger trains began running from Waterfoot to Bacup, this took place on 1st October 1852. On the day of opening many persons travelled along the line, which was described as a most romantic one  the fare being two pence meant that many could afford to travle on the new line and it was recorded that four hundred persons travelled from Newchurch to Bacup and back two days later on Sunday 3rd October. Several months followed before goods trains began running through to Bacup this taking place in February 1853.  By 1865 it had become apparent that the single line was just not enough commercial travellers complained that Bacup was just a terminus that they could not continue on to other places such as Rochdale, Burnley or Todmorden from Bacup to continue thier business without having to go back on themselves. That it was quicker to walk over the hills to get to these places and cheaper, as at this time the fare to Manchester was 1s 10d, and so it was decided to open another line from Bacup to Rochdale, the line opened on 1st December 1881.The Facit to Bacup line was known locally as the " New Line " hence the name of the road we know today. By March 1878 the company of Messrs Dransfield and Thompson had won the contract to install a second track from Waterfoot to Bacup which of course meant the need to excavate another tunnel at the Thrutch and at Stubylee the tunnel at Stubylee was approximately 144 yards long. The line opened in 1880 with travell from Bacup to Bury  taking approximately 32 to 34 minutes and a minute or two longer was added for journeys from Bury to Bacup to compensate for the gradients. Trains made a shorter trip to Ramsbottom every evening  returning at 6.37pm.There was also a through train from Bolton to Bacup each day leaving Bolton at 9.00am and due into Bacup at 9.48am,travelling via Radcliffe  but with no corresponding service in the reverse direction.. On Sundays there were four steam trains in each direction Bacup, Bury through to Manchester and Manchester, Bury through to Bacup. Trains for Bacup from Rochdale usually departed from the platform on the down side at the east end of Rochdale station.

 Travelling through to Wardelworth, from there the line became single. Passing over the viaduct at Healey Dell the train arrived at the one platformed station of Broadley  then onto Whitworth which had a platform on the east side of the line and a goods yard on the opposite side. Facit station was a mile further on.Shawforth station was temporarily closed in 1917 the line descended to Britannia, which at 967 feet above sea level was the highest point on the old L&Y R. Britannia Station was also closed in 1917 as a cost cutting measure but unlike Shawforth which reopened Britannia remained closed. Passenger traffic to Rochdale from Bacup was stopped on 16th June 1947, affected initially  by the competition of the Rochdale Corporation electrified tramway which was extended to Bacup in 1911 and was known as the Bacup Light Railway, being replaced by buses in about 1930.Apart from light engine movements between Bacup Locomotive shed the line after Facit became disused. The whole line from Rochdale to Facit was finally closed in August 1967.The last train From Bacup To Rochdale shown below was on 14 June 1947.On the Bacup to Bury line diesels were introduced in 1956 and there then was a train every 30 minutes  each way leaving Bury at twenty past and fifty past the hour and returning from Bacup on the even and half hour Journey time was reduced to 28 minutes from Bacup to Bury but was 34 minutes in the reverse direction.