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Kettering railway station

52°23′35″N 0°43′56″W / 52.39307°N 0.73215°W / 52.39307; -0.73215

Kettering
Kettering railway station view from Station Road, 2023
General information
LocationKettering, North Northamptonshire
England
Grid referenceSP863780
Managed byEast Midlands Railway
Platforms4
Other information
Station codeKET
ClassificationDfT category C2
History
Original companyMidland Railway
Pre-groupingMidland Railway
Post-groupingLondon, Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
8 May 1857 (1857-05-08)Opened as Kettering
4 May 1970Renamed Kettering for Corby
5 May 1975Renamed Kettering and Corby
2 May 1977Renamed Kettering for Corby
16 May 1988Renamed Kettering
Passengers
2018/19 1.063 million
 Interchange  91,241
2019/20 1.033 million
 Interchange  94,097
2020/21 0.258 million
 Interchange  22,406
2021/22 1.113 million
 Interchange  99,783
2022/23 1.008 million
 Interchange  0.369 million
Listed Building – Grade II
FeatureKettering Railway Station, including the main building and platforms 1,2,3 and 4 and their associated buildings and canopies
Designated5 May 1981 (amended 26 November 2014)
Reference no.1372596[1]
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Kettering railway station serves the market and industrial town of Kettering in Northamptonshire, England. It lies south-west of the town centre, on the Midland Main Line, 71 miles (115 km) north of London St. Pancras.

History edit

 
Kettering railway station from the Illustrated London News 23 May 1857

The station was opened in May 1857 by the Midland Railway, on a line linking the Midland to the Great Northern Railway at Hitchin. Later, the Midland gained its own London terminus at St Pancras railway station. In 1857, the leather trade was in recession and so over half of Kettering's population was on poor relief; the railway enabled the town to sell its products over a much wider area and restored it to prosperity.[citation needed]

The original station with a single platform was designed by Charles Henry Driver, with particularly fine 'pierced grill' cast ironwork on the platform. In 1858, it was reported that the station was now lit by gas lamps with gas supplied from the town mains. It was also reported that the line was one of the very few without telegraphic wires.[2]

From 1866, the station was also the terminus of the Midland cross country branch line from Cambridge via St Ives and Huntingdon, until closure in June 1959.

In 1879, the line was quadrupled. New fast lines were built to the west of the original slow lines. Three new platforms were built: numbers 2 and 3 on an island between the fast and slow lines, with number 4 to the west of the fast lines. The Midland Railway commissioned single-storey weather-boarded waiting rooms and canopies, with cast-iron columns and spandrels for the island platforms 2 and 3 and platform 4, to match those designed in 1857 by Charles Henry Driver.

From 1879 (for freight) and 1880 (for passengers), Kettering was also a junction for the direct line from Kettering to Nottingham, via Oakham and Melton Mowbray. This closed to passengers in 1966, but was left as a through route for freight (as far as Melton Mowbray only from 1968.) For later services on this line, see "Corby Services" below.

Other additions included a two-bay engine shed, erected by C. Deacon & Company for the Midland Railway, at the north end of the forecourt around 1875 and a goods shed with offices, built at the south end around 1894.

The Midland Railway replaced the main station buildings on platform 1 between 1895 and 1898 with a new booking hall, booking office, parcels office and refreshment room. These current buildings may be by Charles Trubshaw.[1] It is regarded as one of the best remaining examples of Midland architecture.[3]

In the 1970s, the glass canopies became a maintenance headache for British Rail, who proposed to remove the tops of the cast iron columns and replace the glass canopies with plastic sheeting. Kettering Civic Society objected to the plans and the canopies and columns were reprieved, later to be sympathetically restored by Railtrack in 2000.

London, Midland and Scottish Railway edit

Until the line through Bakewell was closed in the Beeching era, the 'main lines' were those from London to Manchester, carrying named expresses such as The Palatine. Express trains to Leeds and Scotland, such as the Thames-Clyde Express, generally used the Erewash Valley Line then on to the Settle and Carlisle Line. Expresses to Edinburgh, such as The Waverley, travelled through Corby and Nottingham.

Corby services edit

Just north of Kettering, on Engineer's Line Reference SPC2 (St Pancras to Chesterfield), is Glendon Junction for the Oakham to Kettering Line. This leads through Corby to Manton Junction, where it joins the Leicester to Peterborough Line. This historically provided an alternative route for expresses to Nottingham via Old Dalby.

Passenger services were withdrawn from this line in the 1960s, though it remained open for freight. In 1987, Network SouthEast experimentally introduced a shuttle service between Kettering and a new station in the nearby town of Corby. The service was withdrawn a few years later. Corby was often regarded as being the largest town in western Europe with no railway station.[citation needed] East Midlands Trains, and Midland Mainline before it, was committed through its franchise to run a shuttle bus from Corby to Kettering station. Occasionally the line is used as a diversionary route when the route between Kettering and Leicester is closed.

The new station at Corby was originally planned to open in December 2008, but this was delayed until extra trains were acquired. It eventually opened on 23 February 2009, initially served by one return train to London St Pancras per day, operated by East Midlands Trains.[4] Full service, with 13 daily returns to London, started on 27 April 2009. The service provided hourly trains between Corby and London St Pancras International until the May 2021 timetable change when the service was increased to half-hourly under the new franchise holder Abellio.[5]

Services edit

All services at Kettering are operated by East Midlands Railway under its InterCity and Connect brands.

As of May 2023, services are operated using Class 222 Meridian DMUs for InterCity services and Class 360 EMUs for Connect services.

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:[6][7]

There is also a limited service to Sheffield although most Sheffield-bound trains pass through the station without stopping.

There are also two trains per day that continue past Corby to and from Oakham and Melton Mowbray. One of these terminates at Kettering and the other continues to London St Pancras.

Facilities edit

Kettering is staffed during operational hours (05:00-00:30); it is locked and inaccessible outside of these times. The station is equipped with CCTV cameras, which are monitored locally and at the town council offices.

From 2009, Kettering became a penalty fare station; a valid ticket or permit to travel must be shown on request.

  • Lifts to all platforms.
  • Two pay and display car parks (for charges see http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations/ket/details.html).
  • Waiting rooms on all platforms. Platform 4 has a painting of a girl looking into a box, artist unknown.
  • Pumpkin Café.
  • Accessible toilet and baby change.
  • FastTicket machine
  • Food vending machines.
  • Payphones.
  • Taxis.

The station is included in the PlusBus scheme, where bus travel can be added to train tickets for a small additional charge. Through fares were made available from 68 UK towns and cities to Paris, Brussels and other destinations in France and Belgium in late 2007; these must be booked through Eurostar.[8]

The station formerly had a nightclub in the basement of the station building. The nightclub has recently had a licence granted, which shall re-open and as a bar and music venue.[citation needed]

A subway and barrow crossing was used at the station to access the various platforms, until the lifts and stairs were constructed in the 1990s. The former station master's flat has remained available to rent for several years.

Future edit

It was originally planned that all platforms would be extended by up to 50 metres by 2012, to allow longer trains to be accommodated.[9] This was not actioned until years later, as the platforms were extended by August 2020 in preparation for the May 2021[10] timetable change. This is because 21 new 4-carriage Class 360 EMU units are occasionally used in formations of threes, equivalent to 12 carriages per train, and require the extra platform length to fit fully.[11]

Until very recently, the railway through Kettering was not electrified,[12] this changed in May 2021, when Class 360 EMUs began running on the newly electrified section between Bedford and Corby, along its route between London St Pancras and Corby. Diesel Class 222 Meridians and 180 Adelantes were cascaded in order to solely run the inter-city services north to Nottingham, Sheffield, Derby, Leeds and Lincoln; these services continue to call frequently at Kettering. The Class 180s were removed from service in May 2023, and direct trains to Lincoln and Leeds no longer serve Kettering.

Kettering is also now a major interchange for the south end of the Midland Main Line. In the May 2021 timetable change, the EMR inter-city services stopped calling at Wellingborough, Bedford, Luton and Luton Airport Parkway. Passengers from these stations now have to change at Kettering in order to take an EMR inter-city train north to destinations such as Leicester, Nottingham and Derby.[13]

Destinations edit

Major urban centres edit

Many of the UK's major cities can be reached with one or two changes. Many continental cities can be reached via one change at St Pancras International.

The following places can be reached directly from Kettering (Journey times approximate):

The following places can be reached from Kettering by changing once:

Passengers are able to travel to Paris and Brussels by changing at St Pancras Int. East Midlands Railway has said it will introduce earlier journeys to London to allow passengers to arrive in Paris or Brussels before 9am.[14]

Local important centres edit

The following places can be reached directly from Kettering (Journey times approximate):


The following places can be reached from Kettering by changing once:

Tickets edit

The ticket office is open from 06:00 until 20:30, seven days a week. At all other times a vending machine is available.

Ticket gates were installed and made operational during 2023.[15]

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b Historic England, "Kettering Railway Station, including the main building and platforms 1,2,3 and 4 and their associated buildings and canopies (1372596)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 9 December 2016
  2. ^ "Improvements on the Line". Leicestershire Mercury. England. 6 November 1858. Retrieved 29 January 2022 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  3. ^ Radford, J.B. (1988) [1983]. Midland Line Memories: a Pictorial History of the Midland Railway Main Line Between London (St Pancras) & Derby. London: Bloomsbury Books. ISBN 978-1-870630-21-4.
  4. ^ . East Midlands Trains. 17 December 2009. Archived from the original on 5 May 2009. Retrieved 4 May 2009.
  5. ^ "East Midlands Railway Corby to London". East Midlands Railway. 20 August 2021. Retrieved 20 August 2021.
  6. ^ "Train times: InterCity and Connect services" (PDF). East Midlands Railway. Retrieved 20 May 2021.
  7. ^ "May 2021 Timetable Changes - Kettering". East Midlands Railway. Retrieved 20 May 2021.
  8. ^ (Press release). Eurostar. 18 December 2007. Archived from the original on 30 December 2007. Retrieved 28 December 2007.
  9. ^ (PDF). Network Rail. December 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 June 2011. Retrieved 18 March 2010.
  10. ^ Cronin, Kate (6 July 2020). "Big changes to Kettering, Wellingborough and Corby train services delayed until next year". Northamptonshire Telegraph. Kettering.
  11. ^ "Midland Main Line Upgrade Plan – Bedford to Kettering". Network Rail. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
  12. ^ (PDF). p. 36. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2017. Retrieved 31 December 2017.
  13. ^ Bagley, Alison (4 February 2021). "Timetable changes for Corby and Kettering rail passengers as Wellingborough miss out on Intercity service". Northamptonshire Telegraph. Kettering. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
  14. ^ "East Midlands Railway".
  15. ^ "East Midlands Railway ticket barriers to begin operating at Corby and Kettering stations tomorrow". ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 9 March 2022.

External links edit

  • Train times and station information for Kettering railway station from National Rail

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4062021 221 113 million Interchange 99 7832022 231 008 million Interchange 0 369 millionListed Building Grade IIFeatureKettering Railway Station including the main building and platforms 1 2 3 and 4 and their associated buildings and canopiesDesignated5 May 1981 amended 26 November 2014 Reference no 1372596 1 NotesPassenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road Kettering railway station serves the market and industrial town of Kettering in Northamptonshire England It lies south west of the town centre on the Midland Main Line 71 miles 115 km north of London St Pancras Contents 1 History 1 1 London Midland and Scottish Railway 1 2 Corby services 2 Services 3 Facilities 4 Future 5 Destinations 5 1 Major urban centres 5 2 Local important centres 6 Tickets 7 See also 8 References 9 External linksHistory edit nbsp Kettering railway station from the Illustrated London News 23 May 1857 The station was opened in May 1857 by the Midland Railway on a line linking the Midland to the Great Northern Railway at Hitchin Later the Midland gained its own London terminus at St Pancras railway station In 1857 the leather trade was in recession and so over half of Kettering s population was on poor relief the railway enabled the town to sell its products over a much wider area and restored it to prosperity citation needed The original station with a single platform was designed by Charles Henry Driver with particularly fine pierced grill cast ironwork on the platform In 1858 it was reported that the station was now lit by gas lamps with gas supplied from the town mains It was also reported that the line was one of the very few without telegraphic wires 2 From 1866 the station was also the terminus of the Midland cross country branch line from Cambridge via St Ives and Huntingdon until closure in June 1959 In 1879 the line was quadrupled New fast lines were built to the west of the original slow lines Three new platforms were built numbers 2 and 3 on an island between the fast and slow lines with number 4 to the west of the fast lines The Midland Railway commissioned single storey weather boarded waiting rooms and canopies with cast iron columns and spandrels for the island platforms 2 and 3 and platform 4 to match those designed in 1857 by Charles Henry Driver From 1879 for freight and 1880 for passengers Kettering was also a junction for the direct line from Kettering to Nottingham via Oakham and Melton Mowbray This closed to passengers in 1966 but was left as a through route for freight as far as Melton Mowbray only from 1968 For later services on this line see Corby Services below Other additions included a two bay engine shed erected by C Deacon amp Company for the Midland Railway at the north end of the forecourt around 1875 and a goods shed with offices built at the south end around 1894 The Midland Railway replaced the main station buildings on platform 1 between 1895 and 1898 with a new booking hall booking office parcels office and refreshment room These current buildings may be by Charles Trubshaw 1 It is regarded as one of the best remaining examples of Midland architecture 3 In the 1970s the glass canopies became a maintenance headache for British Rail who proposed to remove the tops of the cast iron columns and replace the glass canopies with plastic sheeting Kettering Civic Society objected to the plans and the canopies and columns were reprieved later to be sympathetically restored by Railtrack in 2000 London Midland and Scottish Railway edit Until the line through Bakewell was closed in the Beeching era the main lines were those from London to Manchester carrying named expresses such as The Palatine Express trains to Leeds and Scotland such as the Thames Clyde Express generally used the Erewash Valley Line then on to the Settle and Carlisle Line Expresses to Edinburgh such as The Waverley travelled through Corby and Nottingham Corby services edit Just north of Kettering on Engineer s Line Reference SPC2 St Pancras to Chesterfield is Glendon Junction for the Oakham to Kettering Line This leads through Corby to Manton Junction where it joins the Leicester to Peterborough Line This historically provided an alternative route for expresses to Nottingham via Old Dalby Passenger services were withdrawn from this line in the 1960s though it remained open for freight In 1987 Network SouthEast experimentally introduced a shuttle service between Kettering and a new station in the nearby town of Corby The service was withdrawn a few years later Corby was often regarded as being the largest town in western Europe with no railway station citation needed East Midlands Trains and Midland Mainline before it was committed through its franchise to run a shuttle bus from Corby to Kettering station Occasionally the line is used as a diversionary route when the route between Kettering and Leicester is closed The new station at Corby was originally planned to open in December 2008 but this was delayed until extra trains were acquired It eventually opened on 23 February 2009 initially served by one return train to London St Pancras per day operated by East Midlands Trains 4 Full service with 13 daily returns to London started on 27 April 2009 The service provided hourly trains between Corby and London St Pancras International until the May 2021 timetable change when the service was increased to half hourly under the new franchise holder Abellio 5 Services editAll services at Kettering are operated by East Midlands Railway under its InterCity and Connect brands As of May 2023 services are operated using Class 222 Meridian DMUs for InterCity services and Class 360 EMUs for Connect services The typical off peak service in trains per hour is 6 7 4 tph to London St Pancras International 2 of these are non stop Intercity services and 2 are Connect services calling at Wellingborough Bedford Luton and Luton Airport Parkway 2 tph to Corby 2 tph to Nottingham via Leicester There is also a limited service to Sheffield although most Sheffield bound trains pass through the station without stopping There are also two trains per day that continue past Corby to and from Oakham and Melton Mowbray One of these terminates at Kettering and the other continues to London St Pancras Preceding station nbsp National Rail Following stationMarket HarboroughEast Midlands Railway Midland Main LineLondon St Pancras International CorbyEast Midlands Railway London to Corby ConnectWellingborough Disused railwaysGlendon and RushtonMidland RailwayMidland Main LineIsham and Burton LatimerFacilities editKettering is staffed during operational hours 05 00 00 30 it is locked and inaccessible outside of these times The station is equipped with CCTV cameras which are monitored locally and at the town council offices From 2009 Kettering became a penalty fare station a valid ticket or permit to travel must be shown on request Lifts to all platforms Two pay and display car parks for charges see http www nationalrail co uk stations ket details html Waiting rooms on all platforms Platform 4 has a painting of a girl looking into a box artist unknown Pumpkin Cafe Accessible toilet and baby change Stagecoach X1 bus to Corby FastTicket machine Food vending machines Payphones Taxis The station is included in the PlusBus scheme where bus travel can be added to train tickets for a small additional charge Through fares were made available from 68 UK towns and cities to Paris Brussels and other destinations in France and Belgium in late 2007 these must be booked through Eurostar 8 The station formerly had a nightclub in the basement of the station building The nightclub has recently had a licence granted which shall re open and as a bar and music venue citation needed A subway and barrow crossing was used at the station to access the various platforms until the lifts and stairs were constructed in the 1990s The former station master s flat has remained available to rent for several years Future editIt was originally planned that all platforms would be extended by up to 50 metres by 2012 to allow longer trains to be accommodated 9 This was not actioned until years later as the platforms were extended by August 2020 in preparation for the May 2021 10 timetable change This is because 21 new 4 carriage Class 360 EMU units are occasionally used in formations of threes equivalent to 12 carriages per train and require the extra platform length to fit fully 11 Until very recently the railway through Kettering was not electrified 12 this changed in May 2021 when Class 360 EMUs began running on the newly electrified section between Bedford and Corby along its route between London St Pancras and Corby Diesel Class 222 Meridians and 180 Adelantes were cascaded in order to solely run the inter city services north to Nottingham Sheffield Derby Leeds and Lincoln these services continue to call frequently at Kettering The Class 180s were removed from service in May 2023 and direct trains to Lincoln and Leeds no longer serve Kettering Kettering is also now a major interchange for the south end of the Midland Main Line In the May 2021 timetable change the EMR inter city services stopped calling at Wellingborough Bedford Luton and Luton Airport Parkway Passengers from these stations now have to change at Kettering in order to take an EMR inter city train north to destinations such as Leicester Nottingham and Derby 13 Destinations editMajor urban centres edit Many of the UK s major cities can be reached with one or two changes Many continental cities can be reached via one change at St Pancras International The following places can be reached directly from Kettering Journey times approximate London St Pancras International 45 65 minutes Leicester 23 26 mins Derby 55 mins Nottingham 55 mins Sheffield 1 hour 25 mins Luton 40 mins The following places can be reached from Kettering by changing once Stoke on Trent Crewe Change at Derby Edinburgh Newcastle York Leeds Bristol Plymouth Change at Sheffield or Derby Manchester Liverpool Change at Nottingham Birmingham Cambridge Change at Leicester St Albans Change at Luton or Luton Airport Parkway Passengers are able to travel to Paris and Brussels by changing at St Pancras Int East Midlands Railway has said it will introduce earlier journeys to London to allow passengers to arrive in Paris or Brussels before 9am 14 Local important centres edit The following places can be reached directly from Kettering Journey times approximate Bedford 20 mins Corby 8 mins Loughborough 36 mins Market Harborough 10 mins Wellingborough 8 mins The following places can be reached from Kettering by changing once Norwich Change at Nottingham Huddersfield Rotherham Hull Grimsby Change at Sheffield Grantham Skegness Boston Lincoln Change at Nottingham Mansfield Change at Nottingham Worksop Change at NottinghamTickets editThe ticket office is open from 06 00 until 20 30 seven days a week At all other times a vending machine is available Ticket gates were installed and made operational during 2023 15 See also editMidland Main Line railway upgradeReferences edit a b Historic England Kettering Railway Station including the main building and platforms 1 2 3 and 4 and their associated buildings and canopies 1372596 National Heritage List for England retrieved 9 December 2016 Improvements on the Line Leicestershire Mercury England 6 November 1858 Retrieved 29 January 2022 via British Newspaper Archive Radford J B 1988 1983 Midland Line Memories a Pictorial History of the Midland Railway Main Line Between London St Pancras amp Derby London Bloomsbury Books ISBN 978 1 870630 21 4 East Midlands Trains announces first trains for Corby East Midlands Trains 17 December 2009 Archived from the original on 5 May 2009 Retrieved 4 May 2009 East Midlands Railway Corby to London East Midlands Railway 20 August 2021 Retrieved 20 August 2021 Train times InterCity and Connect services PDF East Midlands Railway Retrieved 20 May 2021 May 2021 Timetable Changes Kettering East Midlands Railway Retrieved 20 May 2021 Through fares from 68 UK towns and cities to continental Europe now available on eurostar com Press release Eurostar 18 December 2007 Archived from the original on 30 December 2007 Retrieved 28 December 2007 CP4 Delivery Plan 2009 Enhancements programme statement of scope outputs and milestones PDF Network Rail December 2009 Archived from the original PDF on 7 June 2011 Retrieved 18 March 2010 Cronin Kate 6 July 2020 Big changes to Kettering Wellingborough and Corby train services delayed until next year Northamptonshire Telegraph Kettering Midland Main Line Upgrade Plan Bedford to Kettering Network Rail Retrieved 5 February 2021 Network Rail Enhancements Delivery Plan PDF p 36 Archived from the original PDF on 22 December 2017 Retrieved 31 December 2017 Bagley Alison 4 February 2021 Timetable changes for Corby and Kettering rail passengers as Wellingborough miss out on Intercity service Northamptonshire Telegraph Kettering Retrieved 5 February 2021 East Midlands Railway East Midlands Railway ticket barriers to begin operating at Corby and Kettering stations tomorrow ISSN 0307 1235 Retrieved 9 March 2022 External links edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Kettering railway station Train times and station information for Kettering railway station from National Rail Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Kettering railway station amp oldid 1222428184, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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