Former railway station in Northamptonshire, England
Raunds
The site of the station in 2007
General information
Location
Raunds, North Northamptonshire England
Other information
Status
Disused
History
Original company
Midland Railway
Post-grouping
London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
1 March 1866 (1866-03-01)
Opened
15 June 1959
Closed to passengers
Raunds railway station is a railway station that once served the town of Raunds in Northamptonshire, England. The railway station was an intermediate stop on the Kettering, Thrapston and Huntingdon Railway line that closed in 1959.[1][2]
The railway station was fairly inconveniently situated 1.75 miles (2.82 km) from the town itself. At one time there were plans to extend the Wellingborough - Higham Ferrers branch to Raunds, but the plan was blocked by land owners.
The Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway (the forerunner of the Great Central Railway) proposed a line from Doncaster to Raunds in an early version of its bid to build a trunk line to the capital. This line never came to fruition, and the company eventually built its London Extension via Nottingham, Leicester, Rugby and Brackley.
^Quick, M. E. (2002). Railway passenger stations in England, Scotland and Wales – a chronology. Richmond: Railway and Canal Historical Society. p. 358. OCLC 931112387.
^Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. p. 195. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199. OL 11956311M.
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