Raunds railway station explained

Raunds
Status:Disused
Borough:Raunds, North Northamptonshire
Country:England
Original:Midland Railway
Postgroup:London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Events:Opened
Years1:15 June 1959
Events1: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]

The railway station was fairly inconveniently situated 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.

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52.3515°N -0.5037°W

Notes and References

  1. Book: Quick, M. E.. Railway passenger stations in England, Scotland and Wales – a chronology. 2002. Railway and Canal Historical Society. Richmond. 358. 931112387.