Though unstaffed, the station now has a ticket machine in place to allow travellers to buy or collect tickets prior to travelling. Passenger information screens and a PA system have also been installed to provide train running information for users. A ramp provides step-free access from the station car park and main road to the platform.
Services
The station has an hourly service seven days a week to Preston via serving all local stations en route. On Sundays only, trains continue through to - these now run hourly since the December 2017 timetable change.
History
The station opened on 2 October 1848, as the terminus of the Leeds and Bradford Extension Railway from Bradford and. The station became an end-on junction with the East Lancashire Railway's Blackburn, Burnley, Accrington and Colne Extension Railway, which opened on 1 February 1849. By 2 April in the same year the line was part of a through route between Leeds and Liverpool, but the majority of passenger trains east of Colne were local between Skipton and Colne. The station was rebuilt in 1883 with two engine sheds - one for the Midland Railway to the east, one for the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway to the west. In its heyday, the station had regular through links to both Blackpool termini,,,, Manchester Victoria via and even through coaches to London Euston via, Manchester Victoria and. There were also summer dated services to/from and. However, these had all disappeared by the mid-1960s as a result of economies imposed by the British Railways Board, leaving only basic local services to/from and Skipton. The Beeching cuts of 1964/5 reduced the services along the Skipton-Colne line, and on 2 February 1970 this section closed to all traffic. A year later the station was downgraded to an unstaffed halt following the dismantling of the route towards Earby, the singling of the surviving line from Nelson and the abandonment of the eastbound island platform - all trains henceforth used the former westbound platform, which had its buildings demolished & replaced by a simple waiting shelter. The remainder of the branch from Gannow Junction to Nelson was also reduced to single track in December 1986 and so the entire line from there is now operated as a "long siding" with no intermediate passing loops. Colne is therefore in the unusual position of having been a western terminus, a through station and an eastern terminus. The Skipton - East Lancashire Rail Action Partnership campaigns to reinstate the Skipton-Colne line.
