Editing Bacup (section)

== Transport ==
[[File:Bacup's bus station.jpg|thumb|A [[Rosso (bus company)|Rosso]] bus in Bacup town centre]]
[[Bacup railway station]] was opened in 1852<ref name="disused-stations.org.uk">{{cite web|url=http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/b/bacup/index.shtml|title=Disused Stations: Bacup Station|website=disused-stations.org.uk}}</ref> by the [[East Lancashire Railway 1844-1859|East Lancashire Railway]] as the terminus of the [[Rawtenstall to Bacup Line|Rossendale line]]. 
The Rochdale and Facit Railway was extended to Bacup in 1883. It rose over a summit of {{convert|967|ft}} between [[Britannia, Lancashire|Britannia]] and Shawforth. The Rochdale line closed to passenger services in 1947,<ref>{{PastScape|mnumber=1371976|access-date=7 October 2015|mode=cs2}}</ref> and the station finally closed in December 1966,<ref name="disused-stations.org.uk"/> with the cessation of all passenger services to and from [[Manchester Victoria railway station|Manchester Victoria]] via Rawtenstall and Bury.

In June 2014 the police announced they would be monitoring the road between [[Weir]] and Bacup (which passes through [[Broadclough]]) as it has become an accident blackspot with a high number of accidents which have resulted in serious injury and even deaths.<ref name="The Bolton News">{{cite web|url=http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/northwest/11308062.Police_monitoring_Bacup_Weir_accident__blackspot_/ | title=Police Monitoring Bacup Weir Accident Blackspot | work=[[The Bolton News]] | date=29 June 2014 }}</ref>

=== A671 Bypass proposals ===
There have been a large number of road traffic incidents on the [[A671]] as it passes through the small hamlets of [[Broadclough]] and [[Weir, Lancashire|Weir]] near Bacup including fatalities. Currently police are monitoring the road<ref name="The Bolton News"/> and there have been calls from local residents, led by County Councillor Jimmy Easton,<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/northwest/11172039.UPDATED__Man_fighting_for_life_after_Bacup_crash/ | title=UPDATED: Man fighting for life after Bacup crash | work=Lancashire Telegraph | date=26 April 2014 | publisher= Bolton News}}</ref> for the creation of a bypass with the suggestion of utilising elements of Bacup Old Road.