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RefNoKHCP/8/27
AltRefNoHCP/8/27
TitleSouth Midland Railway
DescriptionPassing through parishes: A. 'Northampton line' Wigston Magna… Great Bowden (Leicestershire), Little Bowden… Northampton St Peter, Duston, Hardingstone [where junctions with 'Northampton & Peterborough railway'] (all Northamptonshire) B. 'Bedford line' Little Bowden, Braybrook (Northamptonshire)... St Mary Bedford, St John Bedford (Bedfordshire) C. 'Huntingdon line' Pytchley, Burton Latimer... Raunds (Northamptonshire), Keystone [Keyston], Bythorn, Molesworth, Brington, Great Catworth, Leighton Bromeswold [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) D. 'Raunds branch', parishes Raunds and Irchester (Northamptonshire). Engineers: Robert Stephenson and Charles Liddell Surveyor: J.G. Binns Full title: South Midland or Leicester, Northampton, Bedford and Huntingdon Railway Historical note: the South Midland Railway scheme originally promoted in 1836 from which 'the Leicester-Rugby line was built... delays caused the South Midland Railway scheme to be revived during the Railway mania in 1845, with additional branches to Bedford and Huntingdon, but the scheme lapsed' i.e. not progressed (Leleux, Regional History of the Railways Volume IX p.55)
Date30 November 1845
CreatorNameHuntingdonshire Clerk of the Peace. Plans of Public Undertakings: Railways
RepositoryHuntingdonshire Archives
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