20 The Railway Station
1865 saw the opening of Burley Station. In the early 1900's there would have been approximately thirteen staff working in two shifts. The jobs would have included a station master and his assistant and on each shift a booking clerk, goods clerk, parcel porter, two platform porters and a signalman.
The station dealt with goods as well as passengers. There were goods sidings now occupied by houses at The Robins. A coal siding was situated on the opposite side of the station.
The station became very popular and by the 1920's as many as sixty trains a day were stopping at Burley.
The railway line extended to Bolton Abbey in those days and members of the Royal Family on their way to join in shooting parties at Bolton Abbey would pass through the station at Burley.