Question: Who manages the station that serves a small town and civil parish in the Borough of Pendle Lancashire, England with a population of 8,200 as of 2011?

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Worston: Worston is a small linear village and civil parish in Lancashire, England.  The village is north-west of Pendle Hill, east of Clitheroe, and is in the Ribble Valley district.  As it is only a small village, with a population of 76 at the 2001 census, it has no parish council, but instead has a parish meeting.  The parish meeting is shared with Mearley, a small parish south of Worston with no villages or hamlets and a population of 25, the second smallest in Lancashire.  From the 2011 Census population information for both Mearley and Worston is included within the civil parish of Pendleton.

Salterforth: Salterforth is a village and civil parish within the Borough of Pendle in Lancashire, England.  The population of the Civil Parish at the 2011 census was 637.  It lies on the B6383 road that connects Barnoldswick to the A56 road at Kelbrook.  The Leeds and Liverpool Canal cuts through the village and there are several narrowboat moorings at Salterforth.  The canal footpath provides a picturesque walk to Barnoldswick or to Foulridge in the opposite direction.

Brierfield railway station: Brierfield railway station serves the small town of Brierfield, Lancashire, England and is on the East Lancashire Line 2+1/4 mi east of Burnley Central railway station towards Colne (the terminus).  The station is managed by Northern, who also provide all passenger trains serving it.

Brierfield, Lancashire: Brierfield is a small town and civil parish in the Borough of Pendle Lancashire, England.  It is 2.5 mi north east of Burnley, 1 mi south west of Nelson, and 0.5 mi north east of Reedley.  It has a population of 8,200, reducing marginally to 8,193 at the 2011 Census.

Listed buildings in Lymm: In the English civil parish of Lymm, there are 54 buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England as designated listed buildings. Of thse, one is classified as Grade I and one as Grade II*; the remainder are at Grade II.  Lymm is in the borough of Warrington and the ceremonial county of Cheshire.  In the early 16th century, the civil parish was a prosperous agricultural area, divided into two manors, Lymm and Oughtrington.  The Grade-II*-listed Lymm Hall, the oldest listed building in the civil parish, dates from the late 16th century and occupies the site of a medieval building which was the manorial seat.  The largest settlement in the civil parish is Lymm, which has expanded into a small town whilst retaining its village centre.  Several other small settlements within the parish remain separate, including Oughtrington; Oughtrington Hall dates from around 1810.

Roughlee: Roughlee is a village in Pendle, Lancashire, England, in the civil parish of Roughlee Booth.  It is close to Nelson, Barrowford and Blacko.  The village lies at the foot of Pendle Hill, well known for the Pendle Witches, and includes the hamlet of Crowtrees.  The parish adjoins the Pendle parishes of Blacko, Barrowford, Old Laund Booth, Goldshaw Booth and Barley-with-Wheatley Booth.  It is part of the Forest of Bowland Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB).

Earby: Earby is a small town and civil parish within the Borough of Pendle in Lancashire, England.  It is 5 mi north of Colne, 7 mi south-west of Skipton, and 11 mi north-east of Burnley.  The parish had a population of 6,183 recorded in the 2011 census,

Padiham: Padiham is a small town and civil parish on the River Calder, about 3 mi west of Burnley and south of Pendle Hill, in Lancashire, England.  It is part of the Borough of Burnley, but has its own town council with varied powers.  Padiham was originally a rural village lying by the River Calder.  It is still surrounded by attractive countryside on an arc running from the north-west to the north-east in the foothills of Pendle Hill.

Laneshaw Bridge: Laneshawbridge (otherwise Laneshaw Bridge) is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Pendle.  The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 918.  It is to the east of Colne in Lancashire and is the easternmost settlement in Lancashire on the main road route, before the North Yorkshire border.

Simonstone, Lancashire: Simonstone is a small village and civil parish in the Ribble Valley district of Lancashire, England.  The population of the civil parish taken at the 2011 census was 1,154.  It is about 4 mi west of Burnley and south of Pendle Hill and Clitheroe along the A671 road.  The village adjoins the village of Read, Lancashire and neighbours Padiham.

Supporting paragraphs: Brierfield railway station Brierfield, Lancashire
Answer: Northern