Rugby and Stamford Railway

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to East Coast Main Line at Essendine Birmingham– Peterborough line to Wansford Stamford East Stamford Ketton and Collyweston Luffenham Birmingham– Peterborough line Morcott Uppingham to Peterborough East Oakham–Kettering line Seaton Rockingham Drayton Junction Ashley and Weston Hallaton Junction to Leicester Welham Junction Midland Main Line to Leicester Market Harborough Midland Main Line to London St Pancras Northampton– Market Harborough line Lubenham Theddingworth Welford and Kilworth Yelvertoft and Stanford Park Lilbourne Clifton Mill West Coast Main Line Great Central Main Line Rugby West Coast Main Line

The Rugby and Stamford Railway was an early railway in England built in 1850. The London and Birmingham Railway had already built a branch from Blisworth to serve Northampton and extend to Peterborough. The success of this, the Northampton and Peterborough Railway encouraged the directors to look for other ventures. They decided upon a branch from Rugby to Stamford which would link up with other new railways in the east of the country.

At approximately the same time the Midland Railway was building its Syston to Peterborough line which opened in 1848. It was therefore necessary to share its line between Luffenham and Stamford.