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Irchester railway station

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Place
  
1857
  
Opened

Original company
  
Pre-grouping
  
1960
  
Closed (passenger)

Irchester railway station httpsuploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommonsthu

Area
  
Borough of Wellingborough

Similar
  
Gretton railway station, Church Brampton railway st, Lamport railway station, Harringworth railway station, Billing railway station

Irchester railway station was built by the Midland Railway in 1857 on its extension from Leicester to Bedford and Hitchin in England.

The station building was built on an overbridge. It closed for passenger traffic in 1960, and for goods in 1965.

The Irchester Bank is one of the steepest of five summit levels between Leicester and Bedford. The surrounding country provided important traffic to the line in the form of ironstone for the smelters in Derbyshire.

In the early twentyfirst century local campaigners argued for the station to be reopened to serve as a 'park and ride' station for the nearby town of Rushden.

References

Irchester railway station Wikipedia


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