Long Buckby railway station

Long Buckby
265px London Midland train calling at Long Buckby.
Location
Place	Long Buckby
Local authority	District of Daventry
Grid reference	SP623666
Operations
Station code	LBK
Managed by	London Midland
Number of platforms	2
DfT category	E
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2009/10	0.183 million
2010/11	0.203 million
2011/12	0.235 million
2012/13	0.251 million
2013/14	0.276 million
History
Key dates	Opened 1881 (1881)
Original company	London and North Western Railway
Pre-grouping	London and North Western Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Long Buckby from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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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 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 London Midland services to Birmingham New Street and Northampton. For Virgin Trains 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, as one of several wayside stations between Northampton and Rugby. British Railways closed all the others in the 1960s.

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

File:Long Buckby station entrance, geograph 1960376 by Ian Rob.jpg

Station entrance

Long Buckby is served by three London Midland trains 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 London Midland 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 & Rugby).

Royal funeral

Part of the park at Althorp

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 Midland 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