epw023766 ENGLAND (1928). Towcester Railway Station, Towcester, 1928

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Title [EPW023766] Towcester Railway Station, Towcester, 1928
Reference EPW023766
Date September-1928
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Place name TOWCESTER
Parish TOWCESTER
District
Country ENGLAND
Easting / Northing 468996, 249313
Longitude / Latitude -0.99176903115811, 52.13739203211
National Grid Reference SP690493

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Some wagons it is shunting with a greater number left in the loop line.

John Wass
Wednesday 10th of April 2019 03:24:41 PM
This cattle wagon will be empty being coupled here at the rear of the train. They are normally shunted at the front of any train where they will get a smoother ride and avoid the cattle suffering falls and thereby injuries.

John Wass
Wednesday 10th of April 2019 03:22:48 PM
Footbridge between the two platforms.

John W
Thursday 7th of July 2016 08:41:18 PM
Lines to Stratford upon Avon and Banbury. Both operated as single lines out of Towcester. Access just after bridge to sidings to North of running lines.

Thermos
Sunday 17th of November 2013 09:05:08 AM
The line to Banbury had gone by 1955. Regret I don't have a more exact date of closure - it was in use in 1947.

John W
Thursday 7th of July 2016 09:21:52 PM
Line to Blisworth. Single track

Thermos
Sunday 17th of November 2013 09:03:41 AM
Line to Blisworth. Single track

Thermos
Sunday 17th of November 2013 09:03:41 AM
Bridge 149. Still extant. Built to double track standard but only ever spanned a single line. Line went to Olney via Ravenstone Wood Junction. Recent pictures here: http://thesmjr.ning.com/photo/albums/bridge-149

Thermos
Sunday 17th of November 2013 09:03:02 AM
Former waiting room.

Thermos
Sunday 17th of November 2013 08:56:46 AM
"Lucas Bridge" over the A5. So called due to the LUCAS adverts on the span

Thermos
Sunday 17th of November 2013 08:55:58 AM
Cattle dock/pen

Thermos
Sunday 17th of November 2013 08:54:47 AM
The A5 Trunk Road. Also known as Watling Street. Originally a Roman road

MB
Sunday 31st of March 2013 11:26:47 AM
The dual-carriageway A43 trunk road now runs through these fields

MB
Sunday 31st of March 2013 11:25:42 AM

MB
Sunday 31st of March 2013 11:24:26 AM
Hesketh Hotel in 1900; Manderley by 1977

MB
Sunday 31st of March 2013 11:23:46 AM
Steam locomotive with wagons

MB
Sunday 31st of March 2013 11:20:30 AM
Locomotive turntable

MB
Sunday 31st of March 2013 11:19:30 AM

MB
Sunday 31st of March 2013 11:18:54 AM

MB
Sunday 31st of March 2013 11:18:32 AM
It has to be empty as loaded wagons always went at the front of any train. They rode better there and didn't upset the animals.

John Wass
Wednesday 20th of August 2014 09:05:31 PM
Tall signalbox

MB
Sunday 31st of March 2013 11:18:11 AM
Probably provided to give a view over the nearby station footbridge.

John W
Thursday 7th of July 2016 08:40:29 PM

User Comment Contributions

Towcester station was on the Stratford on Avon and Midland Junction Railway, a lengthy cross-country route from Broom in Warwickshire to a junction with the Midland Railway's branch from near Bedford to Northampton - nearly 70 miles. En route it made junctions with a number of other railway lines that it crossed. Just east of Towcester there was a link to the main line from Euston to Birmingham at Braunston.

By 1955 it was only used for goods traffic and had closed by 1965.

John W
Thursday 7th of July 2016 09:15:47 PM
Towcester station was on the Stratford on Avon and South Midland Joint. This was an independent line running east-west and linking Bedford on the Midland Railway with Stratford-on-Avon on the Great Western. Towcester was the junction for branches to Banbury in the south west - on the Great Western's route from Princes Risborough to Leamington Spa - and Blisworth to the north east, on the London & North Western's main line from Euston to Crewe and point north. This explais the locomotive turntable, added sometime after 1900.

MB
Sunday 2nd of June 2013 11:40:05 AM
The railway (from January 1909) was the Stratford-upon-Avon & Midland Junction Railway, absorbed by the LMS in 1923. Its western objective was a junction with the Midland Railway near Evesham - providing the Midland Railway with a "short cut" between London and Bristol, in competition with the GWR. The railway sought to exploit iron ore traffic from the area. Its Banbury line connected with the L&NWR, not GWR. The turntable was added in 1908 and removed some time after 1939.

Richard Maund
Sunday 2nd of June 2013 11:40:05 AM