 The BBC&WYR was renamed the Blackburn Railway on 24 July 1851, and was amalgamated into the both the Lancashire and Yorkshire (LYR) and East Lancashire Railways (ELR) on 1 January 1858.It became wholly owned by the LYR in 1859 when the ELR amalgamated with the LYR.Henry Ashworth, cotton mill owner and deputy chairman of the BBC&WYR, claimed £6,492 from the company for nine acres of land bordering The Oaks, his Georgian home.