Long Buckby railway station

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General information
Location	District of Daventry
Managed by	London Northwestern Railway
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	LBK
History
Original company	London and North Western Railway
Pre-grouping	London and North Western Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
1 February 1881 (1881-02-01)	Station opened

Long Buckby railway station is a small railway station next to the village of Long Buckby, Northamptonshire, England. It is the nearest railway station for the larger town of Daventry, 4 miles (6.4 km) away.

The station is on the Northampton loop of the West Coast Main Line. It is served by West Midlands Trains services to Birmingham New Street, Northampton and London Euston. For Avanti West Coast inter-city services passengers should change at Rugby, the next station to the west.

The station was opened along with the line in 1881, by the London and North Western Railway, it is the only remaining station between Northampton and Rugby; three others opened at the same time (Kilsby and Crick, Althorp Park and Church Brampton) are now closed.

The station facilities are very basic, the original station buildings were demolished and replaced with simple 'bus shelter' type shelters on the platforms. A cabin next to the car park now serves as the part-time ticket office.

Services

Station entrance

Long Buckby is served by three West Midlands Trains services per hour in each direction: i.e., three northwestbound to Birmingham New Street via Rugby and Coventry, and three southeastbound to Northampton and London Euston. As of 2016, the station has a part-time ticket office.

On Sundays there is an hourly New Street to Euston via Northampton that calls, along with the hourly West Midland Trains service between London Euston and Crewe via the Trent Valley Line and Stoke-on-Trent. The latter service also runs on Monday to Saturday but does not call here or at Northampton (it runs instead direct between Milton Keynes and Rugby).

Royal funeral

Since the closure of Althorp Park station in 1960, Long Buckby has been the nearest station to Althorp, the family home of the Earls Spencer. In 1997 Long Buckby station was where the Prince of Wales, Prince William and Prince Harry arrived from London after the Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales. Prince Charles and his sons took a different route to Althorp using Brington Road while the rest of the Royal Family and guests were driven through the village of Long Buckby leaving the village via East Street to follow the main Northampton road to Althorp.

References

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Rugby		London Northwestern Railway London or Northampton - Birmingham		Northampton
	Historical railways
Kilsby and Crick Line open, station closed		London and North Western Railway Northampton Loop		Althorp Park Line open, station closed

External links

• Train times and station information for Long Buckby railway station from National Rail
• Old photograph of the station from 1952 - flickr.com