Blackburn has several plaques placed in locations of historic significance.
[1] Later, Blackburn Local History Society agreed to take on responsibility of managing the local scheme and worked with Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council to add additional plaques as part of a local heritage festival in 2014.
[3] The British Film Institute placed two plaques in Blackburn as part of the Centenary of Cinema celebration in 1996.
This station was completed by the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway in 1888, replacing the town's first station opened by the Blackburn & Preston Railway at this site in Stonybutts on 1st June 1846.
The station frontage building is listed Grade II and stands in a Conservation Area.