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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 ...
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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.
The ten mile line took some time to construct due to difficulty in raising money, and before it opened the company changed its name to the Stratford-upon-Avon, Towcester and Midland Junction Railway (ST&MJR), by the Stratford-upon-Avon, Towcester and Midland Junction Railway Act 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. ccix) of 10 August 1882. [2] [page needed]
… a Welsh railway line and/or company. T or TfL: Category:Templates for Transport for London … a Transport for London service or facility. B or bus: Category:Templates for bus routes of the United Kingdom … a (place) bus route or line. STN or station: Category:United Kingdom station layout templates* … a (place) railway station.
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 ...
This is a diagrammatic map of the Great Central Main Line, part of the former Great Central Railway network. The map shows the line as it currently is (please refer to legend), and includes all stations (open or closed). Some nearby lines and branch lines are also shown, though most stations are omitted on such lines if they are closed.
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 ...