Thrapston Midland Road railway station information
Former railway station in Northamptonshire, England
See also: Thrapston Bridge Street railway station
Thrapston Midland Road
General information
Location
Thrapston, North Northamptonshire England
Platforms
2
Other information
Status
Disused
History
Original company
Kettering, Thrapston & Huntingdon Railway
Pre-grouping
Midland Railway
Post-grouping
London, Midland and Scottish Railway London Midland Region of British Railways
Key dates
1 March 1866
Station opened as Thrapstone
1 October 1885
Renamed Thrapston
2 June 1924
Renamed Thrapston Midland Road
15 June 1959
Station closed to passengers[1]
28 October 1963
Station closed to goods.[2] The opening titles of British sitcom; Oh, Doctor Beeching, feature the same design of locomotive.
Thrapston Midland Road railway station is a former railway station on the Kettering, Thrapston and Huntingdon Railway line from Kettering. The station officially closed to Passengers on 15 June 1959. However the actual last passengers left the platform on the 8.30pm from Kettering on the evening of 13 June 1959. The train was hauled by steam locomotive and tender 46467 a Class 2 Ivatt LMS Mogul 2-6-0.[3]
Thrapston Station Quarry, formerly called Thrapston Midland Railway Station Quarry, is a geological Site of Special Scientific Interest.[4]
A sound recording of the last passenger train to leave Thrapston Midland Road Station in 1959ⓘ
Preceding station
Disused railways
Following station
Twywell
Midland Railway Kettering to Huntingdon Line
Raunds
^Butt, R.V.J., (1995) The Directory of Railway Stations, Yeovil: Patrick Stephens
^Clinker, C.R. (October 1978). Clinker's Register of Closed Passenger Stations and Goods Depots in England, Scotland and Wales 1830-1977. Bristol: Avon-AngliA Publications & Services. p. 135. ISBN 0-905466-19-5.
^Wally Jacques, Contemporaneous Audio Record (1959)
^"Thrapston Station Quarry citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 20 February 2017.
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