| Description | Passing through parishes: A. 'South Midland Railway' [sic] Wigston Magna, Glen Magna… Glendon, Kettering (Leicestershire)… St Paul Bedford, St Mary Bedford… Holwell, Ickleford, Hitchin (Hertfordshire) B. 'Line from Little Bowden to Northampton' C. 'Line to Huntingdon' Isham, Burton Latimer... Raunds (Northamptonshire), Keyston, Bythorn, Molesworth, Brington, Great Catworth, Leighton Bromswold, Spaldwick, Ellington, Easton, Alconbury, Little Stukely [Stukeley], Great Stukely [Stukeley], Huntingdon St John, Huntingdon St Mary, Brampton, Godmanchester [where junctions end-on with Ely & Huntingdon Railway at (later named) Godmanchester station] (all Huntingdonshire, this line being identical to South Midland Railway submission of previous year) D. 'Branch to Wellingborough, and the branch from there to the main line' E. 'Branch from Raunds to Irthlingborough' F. 'Proposed road to the intended station at Market Harborough' G. 'Enlargement of the Leicester Station' (land in parish of St Margaret, Leicester) Engineers: Robert Stephenson and Charles Liddell Surveyor: J.G. Binns Historical note: comprises revision of South Midland scheme of previous year with main line extending to Hitchin instead of Hardingstone near Northampton. Act obtained August 1847 (10 & 11 Vict. cap. cxxxv) but only railway A. constructed after re-authorisation sought in 1852 and granted following year, opened May 1857 |