Whilst there is a 2258 service for Blackburn, it's not actually formed of the same train we've just arrived on (which instead goes to King Street sidings), otherwise it would be a guaranteed connection despite only being a connection time of three minutes. There doesn't appear to be any more buses around the town at this time of night so we stop off overnight and return to the station the following morning, where we board the 0625 Northern service 2J21 to Moston, arriving there at 0750 on Thursday morning.