Althorp Park railway station

Althorp Park
The site of the former station, 2006
General information
Location	Althorp, West Northamptonshire, England
Coordinates	52.290278°N 1.002547°W / 52.290278; -1.002547
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	London and North Western Railway
Pre-grouping	London and North Western Railway
Post-grouping	London Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
1 December 1881	Station opens
13 June 1960	Station closed
Location

Althorp Park railway station served the civil parish of Althorp, in Northamptonshire, England, between 1881 and 1960. It was situated on the Northampton Loop Line; it was adjacent to Althorp House, the ancestral seat of the Spencers, the family of Diana, Princess of Wales.

History

Opened by the London and North Western Railway, it joined the London Midland and Scottish Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The line then passed on to the London Midland Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.

The station was closed by the British Transport Commission in 1960.

Northampton loop
Birmingham Loop Line Trent Valley line Trent Valley Junction Rugby Hillmorton Junction Rugby Parkway (proposed) Kilsby and Crick Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal (DIRFT) Daventry South Junction Crick Tunnel Watford Lodge Tunnel Long Buckby Althorp Park Church Brampton Northampton– Market Harborough line Northampton Northampton–Peterborough line & Bedford–Northampton line Blisworth Northamptonshire Ironstone Railway Hunsbury Hill Tunnel Roade Cutting Roade Hanslope Junction Castlethorpe Wolverton Milton Keynes Central West Coast Main Line

Preceding station	Historical railways			Following station
Long Buckby Line and station open		London and North Western Railway Northampton Loop		Church Brampton Line open, station closed

The site today

Trains still pass through the site at speed on the Northampton Loop Line, although there are no traces remaining of the former station.

References

Sources

• Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199. OL 11956311M.
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687.

External links

• Photograph of Althorp Park station from 1953 - Flickr.com
• The station on a navigable 1954 O.S. map