Disused railway lines and closed stations in Northamptonshire

213 miles of disused railway
68 closed stations
6 stations open today
30 named lost lines

Northamptonshire has 213 miles of disused railway and 68 closed stations, against 6 stations still open today. More stations have closed here than remain: 11.3 lost for every one still served. The longest lost line is the Stratford-on-Avon Station Junction to Towcester Branch, with 25 miles of its route inside Northamptonshire.

See Northamptonshire’s lost railways on the map

The map opens on the county with the disused lines and closed stations drawn over today’s network. Tap any closed station for its history, or any grey line for its name.

What is left of it

The 213 miles of lost railway in Northamptonshire break down as 188 miles with the track lifted and the trackbed still traceable, 22 miles built over or ploughed out, with little or no trace left, 1.9 miles with track still in place but no trains and 0.9 miles dismantled. These are OpenStreetMap’s own distinctions, made by the people who surveyed each stretch, so a line can appear under more than one state along its length.

Lost railway lines in Northamptonshire

30 named lines with disused track in the county, longest stretch first. The mileage is the part inside Northamptonshire; a line crossing the border is counted on both sides.

Line	Miles in county
Stratford-on-Avon Station Junction to Towcester Branch	25
Northampton and Market Harborough Line	15
Northampton to Peterborough Line	12
Kettering to Huntingdon Line	12
Stratford & Midland Junction Railway	10
Banbury and Verney Junction Branch	9.4
Great Central Railway London Extension	9.0
Seaton to Wansford Branch	8.8
Thrapston to Orton Mere Branch	8.7
Blisworth to Peterborough Line	8.1
Weedon to Marton Junction Line	7.6
Bedford to Northampton Line	7.4
Banbury Branch	6.2
Rugby and Stamford Railway	6.2
Ironstone Tramway	4.8
Great Central Main Line	4.3
Northampton and Peterborough Railway	4.2
Stratford on Avon & Midland Juction Line	4.0
Rugby to Stamford Line	4.0
Great Central Railway	3.0
Wellingborough to Higham Ferrers Branch	2.8
Catesby Tunnel	1.7
Easton Neston Siding	1.3
Wellingborough Loop	0.7
Welham Junction to Melton Junction Line	0.7
Bedford and Northampton Line	0.6
Woodford West to South Curve	0.6
Quarry Tramway	0.5
Woodford West to North Curve	0.4
Weedon Royal Ordnance Depot	0.4

Closed railway stations in Northamptonshire

All 68 closed and former stations in Northamptonshire, A to Z. Each name opens the map on the station; the Wikipedia link, where there is one, has its history.

Stations still open in Northamptonshire

6 stations in Northamptonshire still have a train service. The busiest are Northampton (2.8 million a year), Kettering (1.1 million a year), Wellingborough (980,522 a year), Corby (561,182 a year) and Long Buckby (330,332 a year). Every one has its own page, with the stations you can reach from it directly and how often the trains run: see the A to Z of stations.

Lost railways nearby

Bedfordshire, Rutland, Leicestershire, Warwickshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Oxfordshire and Hertfordshire.

About these figures

The disused lines are the stretches OpenStreetMap records as disused, abandoned, razed or dismantled railway, measured segment by segment and given to the county each segment lies in. The closed stations are Wikidata’s record of British railway stations no longer in service, kept where they are not within a few hundred metres of a station still open. County boundaries are today’s ceremonial counties, with unitary authorities folded into the county they sit in, from the Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0; contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2024). Historic county lines were different, and a closed station a mile over the border is on the neighbouring page.

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