A connecting line (known as the Bury South Junction Connecting Line or Bury East Fork) enabled trains off the Castleton to Bolton line to run northwards from Bury on the Clifton Junction to Accrington line.
The company started out as an Accrington-based coach company in 1919, transporting holidaymakers to the coastal resorts in England and Scotland.
The son of a mathematics tutor, Higginbottom was born in Accrington, Lancashire.
The Haslingden Canal was a proposed canal link between the Bury arm of the Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal in Greater Manchester, England, and the Leeds and Liverpool Canal in Accrington, England, passing through Haslingden.
The book and subsequent BBC mini series are semi-autobiographical and are generally based on Winterson's life in Accrington, Lancashire, where she lived after moving from her birth town Manchester.
The station gave its name to the nearby Baxenden Bank - a two-mile section towards Accrington that included gradients as steep as 1 in 38.
On 6 September 2009, Kee, whilst on loan to League Two side Accrington Stanley, was called up to the senior Northern Ireland squad for the first time, replacing the injured Kyle Lafferty.
The Bacup line left the Clifton Junction to Accrington line at Stubbins Junction.
Church & Oswaldtwistle Cricket Club, based at Oswaldtwistle, Accrington, are a cricket club in the Lancashire League.
Birtwistle started as a craft engineering apprentice in 1958 with Howard & Bullough who were textile machinery manufacturers in Accrington.
He had a spell at Scarborough before joining Accrington Stanley in the summer of 2006.
Jim Grummett, Sr. (1918–1996), English footballer for Lincoln City and Accrington Stanley in the 1940s and 1950s
Some years were spent based in Accrington, with working excursions to a planned preserved line at Helmshore.
In July 2009, Accrington players Jay Harris, Robert Williams, David Mannix, and Andrew Mangan received 5–12-month bans for betting against their own club.
Peter Cavanagh, English footballer for Liverpool and Accrington Stanley
He went on to act as Chief Engineer for the extension of the Forth and Clyde Canal between 1785 and 1791, and as Engineer for the Leeds and Liverpool Canal Gargrave to Accrington section between 1790 and 1799.