Irchester railway station

Irchester railway station was built by the Midland Railway in 1857 on its extension from Leicester to Bedford and Hitchin in England.

Irchester
Station remains in 2002
General information
Location	Irchester, North Northamptonshire England
Coordinates	52.28431°N 0.63469°W / 52.28431; -0.63469
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Midland Railway
Pre-grouping	Midland Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
1857	Opened
1960	Closed (passenger)
1965	Closed (goods)

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]

Route

Preceding station	Historical railways			Following station
Wellingborough		Midland Railway Midland Main Line		Sharnbrook

See also

• Rushden Parkway railway station

References

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)