Place Raunds 1 March 1866 (1866-03-01) opened | Area East Northamptonshire Original company Midland Railway | |
Post-grouping London, Midland and Scottish Railway 15 June 1959 Station closes to passengers Similar Thrapston Midland Road rail, Desborough railway station, Church Brampton railway st, Gretton railway station, Lamport railway station | ||
Raunds railway station is a railway station that once served the town of Raunds in Northamptonshire, England. The station was an intermediate stop on the Kettering to Cambridge railway line that closed in 1959.
The station is fairly inconveniently situated 1.75 miles 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.