page_title: Corby railway station
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Corby railway station / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Corby station, as in 1990. View southward, towards Kettering, Bedford and London: ex-Midland (St Pancras) - Kettering - Melton Mowbray - Nottingham etc. main line. Named Corby &amp; Weldon until 4/3/57 and closed 18/4/66. Kettering - Melton Mowbray - Leicester was closed to passenger traffic 6/6/66. Corby then had the distinction of being one of the three largest towns in Europe without a railway station, but the line remained opne for freight and for diversions, Glendon South Junction near Kettering - Corby as a single line. From 11/4/87 until 2/6/90 a DMU shuttle was run by the Corby Council to/from Kettering. In 2008 an entirely new station was built at Corby and from 23/2/09 a regular service has ben run by East Midlands Trains to London St Pancras, with limited services to Oakham and Melton Mowbray. The photograph shows the single Down side platform of the 'minimal' station in 1990.
context_page_description: Corby railway station, owned by Network Rail and managed by East Midlands Railway, is in Corby, Northamptonshire, England. The current station, opened on 23 February 2009, replaces an earlier one dating from 1879, first closed on 18 April 1966 but reopened between 1987 and 1990.
  Plans for the current station, opposite the original, were approved in late 2007. It opened with just one daily train each way on Mondays to Fridays. The full current service of hourly trains to and from London began on 27 April 2009, after East Midlands Trains had taken delivery of the additional trains needed for its implementation.
context_section_description: The Midland Railway opened Corby station in 1879. It was on the Midland's 'alternative route' between Kettering and Nottingham, serving Corby, Oakham and Melton Mowbray, instead of Market Harborough, Leicester and Loughborough. The station was initially named "Weldon and Corby" to avoid confusion with Corby Glen station in Lincolnshire, which closed in 1959. British Railways (BR) withdrew passenger services from all stations on the Oakham to Kettering Line, including Corby, in May 1967. For some decades, Corby was one of the largest towns in Europe without a railway station (claimed as the largest in an episode of Series C of BBC TV show QI in 2005); only a few, such as Herten in Germany and Łomża in Poland, are larger.
  BR kept the Oakham to Kettering line through Corby open for freight and as a diversionary route. It reduced the southern end of the line, from Glendon Junction (near Kettering) to Corby, to single track in 1986 after the closure of the town's steel works saw freight traffic levels decline. On 13 April 1987, a passenger service of 11 shuttle trains daily between Corby and Kettering, usually operated by a single DMU, was reintroduced with local council subsidy. More than 100,000 people used the service within the first 12 months and an extension to Leicester was proposed. However, the service became unreliable and the council withdrew its subsidy, leading Network Southeast to withdraw the service on 2 June 1990.
caption: The briefly used 1987 station, seen here in 1990 shortly before closure.
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