| 词条 | Desborough railway station |
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|name = Desborough and Rothwell |locale = Desborough |borough = Borough of Kettering |image_name = Desborough & Rothwell former station geograph-3409956-by-Ben-Brooksbank.jpg |caption = Remains of the station in 1993 |original = Midland Railway |pregroup = Midland Railway |postgroup = London, Midland and Scottish Railway |platforms = 2 |gridref = |years = 8 May 1857 |events = Opened as Desborough |years1 = 1 October 1857 |events1 = Renamed Desborough for Rothwell |years2 = 1 November 1899 |events2 = Renamed Desborough and Rothwell |years3 = 1 January 1968 |events3 = Closed }} Desborough railway station was built by the Midland Railway on its extension from Leicester to Bedford and Hitchin. HistoryThe station opened on 8 May 1857[1] as Desborough. It was renamed on 1 October the same year as Desborough for Rothwell. On 20 May 1899, Elizabeth Palmer and her five year old child, Dixon Palmer, were hit by a fish train whilst crossing the line at the station to get to the opposite platform and killed instantly.[2] By August 1899 the Midland Railway Company had received instructions from the Board of Trade to erect a footbridge over the line.[3] In response to a requisition from the ratepayers of Rothwell, the Midland Railway Company decided to inaugurate a bus service between Rothwell and Desborough station in 1899.[4] The station subsequently was renamed Desborough and Rothwell. It closed in 1968.[5] The station building still stands, but the goods yard area is now built-over, mainly given over to a Co-Op store and car park and Albany Sheds. {{Disused Rail Start}}{{rail line|next={{stnlnk|Glendon and Rushton}}|previous={{stnlnk|Market Harborough}}|route=Midland RailwayMidland Main Line|col={{MR colour}}}}{{end}} References1. ^{{cite news |author= |title=Opening of the Leicester and Hitchin Line |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001289/18570509/052/0003 |newspaper=Bedfordshire Mercury |location=British Newspaper Archive |date=9 May 1857 |access-date=5 July 2016 }} 2. ^{{cite news |author= |title=Shocking Double Fatality at Desborough Station. Woman and Child Killed |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000317/18990526/117/0007 |newspaper=Northampton Mercury |location=England |date=26 May 1899 |access-date=15 February 2017 |via=British Newspaper Archive |subscription=yes }} 3. ^{{cite news |author= |title=About Town and County |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000317/18990818/055/0005 |newspaper=Northampton Mercury |location=England |date=18 August 1899 |access-date=15 February 2017 |via=British Newspaper Archive |subscription=yes }} 4. ^{{cite news |author= |title=Kettering |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000237/18990908/024/0006 |newspaper=Stamford Mercury |location=England |date=8 September 1899 |access-date=15 February 2017 |via=British Newspaper Archive |subscription=yes }} 5. ^Radford, B., (1983) Midland Line Memories: a Pictorial History of the Midland Railway Main Line Between London (St Pancras) & Derby London: Bloomsbury Books Further reading
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