Irchester railway station

Irchester
Station remains in 2002
General information
LocationIrchester, North Northamptonshire
England
Coordinates52°17′04″N 0°38′05″W / 52.28431°N 0.63469°W / 52.28431; -0.63469
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original companyMidland Railway
Pre-groupingMidland Railway
Post-groupingLondon, Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
1857Opened
1960Closed (passenger)
1965Closed (goods)

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.[1]

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.[2]

  1. ^ Radford, B., (1983) Midland Line Memories: a Pictorial History of the Midland Railway Main Line Between London (St Pancras) & Derby London: Bloomsbury Books
  2. ^ "Support a Local as well as a Semi-Fast Train Service North of Bedford". Bedfordshire Railway & Transport Association (BRTA). 10 June 2003. Archived from the original on 8 May 2008. Retrieved 30 July 2012. (Web site last updated September 2003)