Raunds railway station

Raunds
Location
Place	Raunds
Area	East Northamptonshire
Operations
Original company	Midland Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
History
1 March 1866 (1866-03-01)	opened
15 June 1959	Station closes to passengers
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom
Closed railway stations in Britain A B C D–F G H–J K–L M–O P–R S T–V W–Z
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Raunds railway station is a railway station that once served the town of Raunds in Northamptonshire, England. The station was an intermediate stop on the Kettering to Cambridge railway line that closed in 1959.

The station is fairly inconveniently situated 1.75 miles from the town itself. At one time there were plans to extend the Wellingborough - Higham Ferrers branch to Raunds, but the plan was blocked by land owners.

The Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway (the forerunner of the Great Central Railway) proposed a line from Doncaster to Raunds in an early version of its bid to build a trunk line to the capital. This line never came to fruition, and the company eventually built its London Extension via Nottingham, Leicester, Rugby and Brackley.

Preceding station	Disused railways	Following station
Thrapston Midland Road		Midland Railway		Kimbolton

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Coordinates: 52°21′01″N 0°30′10″W / 52.3503°N 0.5028°W / 52.3503; -0.5028

Closed railway stations in Northamptonshire

Northampton to Market Harborough Line	Clipston and Oxendon Kelmarsh Lamport Brixworth Spratton Pitsford and Brampton

Banbury to Blisworth	Farthinghoe Helmdon Village Wappenham Towcester Tiffield

Stratford-upon-Avon and Midland Junction Railway	Byfield Morton Pinkney Blakesley Stoke Bruern Salcey Forest

Northampton and Peterborough Railway	Northampton Bridge Street Billing Castle Ashby & Earls Barton Wellingborough London Road Ditchford Irthlingborough Ringstead & Addington Thrapston Bridge Street Thorpe Barnwell Oundle

Rugby to Peterborough East	Wakerley and Barrowden Kingscliffe Nassington

Market Harborough to Bedford	Desborough Glendon and Rushton Isham & Burton Latimer Finedon Irchester

Higham Ferrers branch	Rushden Higham Ferrers

Great Central Main Line	Charwelton Woodford Halse Culworth Helmdon Brackley Central Eydon Road Halt

Northampton Loop Line	Kilsby & Crick Althorp Park Church Brampton

Rugby to Bletchley	Welton Weedon Blisworth Roade

Kettering to Huntingdon	Cranford Twywell Thrapston Midland Road Raunds

Kettering to Melton Mowbray	Geddington Gretton Harringworth

Rugby and Stamford Railway	Lilbourne Yelvertoft & Stanford Park

Weedon to Marton Junction	Daventry Braunston

Other stations	Ashley & Weston Aynho Park Aynho for Deddington Brackley Town Northampton St. John's Street Piddington

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Raunds railway station

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