sentences:  This company attempted to obtain powers to build a 3¾ mile single track line from Barnoldswick to connect with the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railways Chatburn to Hellifield line just north of Gisburn.Due to the L&YR refusing to allow a junction near Gisburn the scheme was abandoned.A similar scheme put forward in 1913, but without a connection to the L&YR, failed due to the First World War.