Area Northampton Platforms in use 2 | 13 May 1845 Opened as Northampton | |
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Place Far Cotton, Northampton Pre-grouping London and North Western Railway Post-grouping London, Midland and Scottish Railway
London Midland Region of British Railways June 1876 Station renamed Northampton Bridge Street Original company London and Birmingham Railway Similar Wellingborough London Road rail, Castle Ashby & Earls Bart, Thrapston Bridge Street rail, Billing railway station, Stoke Bruern railway st | ||
Northampton Bridge Street is a former railway station in Northampton the main town of Northamptonshire on the Northampton and Peterborough Railway which connected Peterborough and Northampton.
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History
This was the first station serving Northampton, originally named Northampton, it was later renamed Northampton Bridge Street in 1876 after a new station was built for the line to Market Harborough. The station meant that people could travel to Wellingborough, Irthlingborough and Peterborough quicker than before.
The service was from Peterborough to Northampton via Wellingborough. The station opened in 1845 with the buildings designed by the architect, John William Livock and closed to passengers in 1964, the buildings being demolished in 1969.
Freight trains continued to use Bridge Street regularly until 1972 and a lone group of corporate sidings finally closed after holding out until 2005.
Today's usage
The actual station was between the Old Towcester Road and the Line, this land is now a housing development.
The Line still runs past the station site although the line past the level crossing has been de-commissioned and is likely to be a road/cycle/walking route [NBC CAAP 2013]
There is still a Network Rail Depot on the south side of the line which includes on old LNWR shed.
Future plans
On 22 October 2013 the West Northamptonshire Development Corporation announced that it had agreed to purchase the disused Northampton Bridge Street branch line from Network Rail for £1.5 million to create a two-mile (3km) cycle and pedestrian path linking the Brackmills Industrial Estate to the Northampton Enterprise Zone.