Corby railway station
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Corby railway station served the town of Corby in Northamptonshire, England. It was on the Midland Railway's "alternative route" between Kettering and Nottingham, bypassing the present main line via Market Harborough, Leicester and Loughborough and passing through Corby, Oakham and Melton Mowbray instead.
Corby station was closed in April 1966 and much of the line lost its remaining passenger services in May 1967. (The Oakham - Melton Mowbray section remains open to passengers as part of the Peterborough to Leicester line.)
The section through Corby is still open for freight (it passes through the 1,920 yard Corby Tunnel just north of the town, and further north still it crosses the colossal 82-arch Harringworth Viaduct). In April 1987 a passenger service was reintroduced but it was only a shuttle train between Corby and Kettering, usually operated using a single Diesel multiple unit. This became irregular and unreliable, Corby Borough Council [1] therefore withdrew funding and the passenger service was withdrawn in June 1990.
A plan was put forward to include the Kettering-Corby line in a cross-country service from Swindon to Peterborough, but this came to nothing. In 2001 Midland Mainline, the rail operator in the county, decided against building a station for Corby. In 2003 Corby's urban regeneration company, Catalyst Corby, announced plans to build a new station by 2011. [2] However, a recent government statement suggested that a station for Corby may not be built for the next seven years.
