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Blackburn with Darwen services is a service station located off J4 on the M65 motorway in Lancashire, England which opened in 2002 and is operated by Extra. [citation needed] It has a petrol station operated by Shell as well as a Travelodge hotel and many places to get food and drink, such as a McDonald's, Costa and Greggs.
Blackburn with Darwen is a unitary authority area with borough status in the ceremonial county of Lancashire, North West England. The borough includes the towns of Blackburn and Darwen plus a wider rural area which includes the villages of Lower Darwen , Feniscowles , Brownhill and Hoddlesden .
The authority consists of four constituent members, one each from Blackpool and Blackburn with Darwen councils and two from Lancashire County Council, two non-constituent members nominated by the twelve lower tier district councils beneath Lancashire County Council, and two associate non-constituent members appointed by the CCA itself.
Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council is the local authority of Blackburn with Darwen in the ceremonial county of Lancashire, England.Since 1998 it has been a unitary authority, being a district council which also performs the functions of a county council; it is independent from Lancashire County Council.
Blackburn Transport's history can be traced back to 1881, when the Blackburn and Over Darwen Tramways Company commenced operating steam trams. [2] From 1898, the routes were operated by Blackburn and Darwen councils. From 1899, work began on converting the network to electric trams. The last route to be electrified was completed on 4 December 1903.
The Corporation took over the services operated by the Blackburn and Over Darwen Tramways Company within its boundary on 1 January 1899. Under the leadership of Mr Robert William Smith-Saville (General Manager of the Tramways Dept) a programme of modernisation and electrification was proposed, but in the meantime between January 1899 to October 1900 the old steam trams continued to run ...
The company was acquired by Blackburn Corporation for £22,337 (equivalent to £3,142,899 in 2023) [3] and Darwen Corporation for £26,163 (equivalent to £3,681,232 in 2023) [3] on 31 December 1898. Steam tram services continued until 1901.
The railway line between Blackburn (Bolton Road) and Bolton was built by the Blackburn, Darwen and Bolton Railway, but it had amalgamated with the Blackburn, Clitheroe and North Western Junction Railway to form the Bolton, Blackburn, Clitheroe and West Yorkshire Railway by the time that the first section, from Blackburn to Sough, including the station at Lower Darwen, 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (4.0 km ...