With planning consent recently granted for the development of a huge strategic rail freight interchange to be named Northampton Gateway a short distance from this location above Roade cutting, this scene will be dramatically changed in the coming couple of years. As part of the awarding of planning consent the developers of the site, Roxhill, are bound to construct a bypass for Roade village. This will cross the cutting diagonally in this view halfway between where I am standing and the green aqueduct. As a villager, I welcome the bypass but at what price? 390155 passes through the cutting forming the 11.35 Manchester to Euston service.
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