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Towcester was a railway station on the Stratford-upon-Avon and Midland Junction Railway which served the town of Towcester in Northamptonshire, England between 1866 and 1964. It once served as an interchange for services to Stratford, Banbury and Olney. It also saw substantial traffic on racedays at Towcester Racecourse. Its closure came as the ...
Towcester railway station; Twywell railway station; W. Wakerley and Barrowden railway station; Wappenham railway station; Weedon railway station;
The train left Towcester punctually at 10.12 am hauled by a class "4F" 0-6-0 with 19 wagons and a brake van. An eastbound train crossed at Towcester station. "A run of about ten minutes with speed round about 20 m.p.h. [30 km/h] brought the train into Blakesley, where... [a] stop of five minutes was made to allow another eastbound train to pass...
Station (Town, unless in station name) Rail company Year closed Tue Brook: London and North Western Railway: 1948 Tullibardine: Caledonian Railway: 1964 Tumby Woodside: GNR: 1970 Tunbridge Wells West: London, Brighton and South Coast Railway: 1985 New station opened by Spa Valley Rly Tunnel Halt (later Moelwyn Halt) Ffestiniog Railway: 1939 ...
Rail transport in Northamptonshire is an integral part of transport in Northamptonshire and part of the national rail network of Great Britain.. Rail in the county of Northamptonshire began in the 1840s with the London and Birmingham Railway who built a section of the West Coast Main Line through the county, along with numerous branch lines.
Northampton railway station is the nearest railway station, being 10 miles (16 km) away from the town. Buses to Northampton, Milton Keynes, Brackley, Potterspury, Deanshanger, Silverstone and Biddlesden operate, but these are infrequent. [18]
In February 2014 it was reported that the projected decommissioning by Network Rail of the line between Northampton station and the A428 Bedford Road in October 2014 would enable the construction of a link road between the two separated halves of St James Mill Road in Northampton, thereby connecting St James with the A5123 Towcester Road and ...
A 1911 Railway Clearing House map of railways in the vicinity of Stoke Bruern (right, in blue). The station opened in 1892 [1] in a thinly populated area on the western side of Stoke Road near the Northamptonshire village of Stoke Bruerne, not far from the southern portal of Blisworth Hill Tunnel on the Grand Union Canal over which ran the Stratford-upon-Avon, Towcester and Midland Junction ...