Market Harborough A Railway Crossroads

By John Gough

NOW a brief stop on the Midland

Mainline between

Kettering and

Leicester, Market

Harborough was at one time an important junction with lines to Rugby,

Northampton and

Peterborough radiating away from the town. This publication by John Gough and the Midland Railway Society is a highly detailed look at the railways of Market Harborough from the arrival of the LNWR from Rugby to Stamford in May 1850. This was closely followed by the Midland Railway building its line south from Leicester to Bedford in 1857. Finally, the LNWR opened its route south to Northampton.

This book is well endowed with maps and gradient profiles along with copies of official documents appertaining to the opening of the various stages of the associated railways. Also within the appendices is a spreadsheet showing the patronage and goods traffic between 1872-1922.

In addition, the book is well illustrated with photographs not only of locomotives but also various railway structures such as signalboxes and bridges.

Overall, a highly recommended publication. AB

Pynot Publishing, www.pynot.co.uk, 104 pages, softback, £14.95