My wife and son ride their bikes across bridge 16

on the Brampton Valley way on the approach to the Brixworth to Spratton crossing. This line was a double track that ran from just north of Northampton at Kingsthorpe to link with the Midland line at Market Harborough. Its fortunes waxed and waned over the years with a number of closure and reopenings with it finally succumbing in 1981. Today, it would prove to be a very useful relief line, particularly for freight with the dearth of east-west lines that exist.