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    Jan 18, 2022 3 minutes

    Market Harborough: A Railway Crossroads

    By John Gough (softback, Midland Railway Society, 104 pages, £14.95, ISBN 9780995514232)

    NOW a brief stop on the Midland Main Line 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. Here is a highly detailed look at the railways of Market Harborough, from the arrival of the LNWR from Rugby to Stamford in May 1850.

    It was closely followed by the Midland Railway building its

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