Image Frontage, Corby station
Frontage, Corby station
Frontage, Corby station The story of Corby's railway station has been a tale of a number of openings and closures! The latest station, seen here, is on the same site as the previous ones and opened in February 2009. It was the third example of a modular station design developed by Network Rail, following Mitcham Eastfields and Greenhithe but did not draw universal applause for its design, notably from the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment who really did not like it! Prior to its re-opening in 2009 it was claimed that Corby was one of the largest towns in Europe without a railway station (according to the Independent) following the closure of the previous one in 1990 that had only opened in 1987 offering a well-patronised but poorly operated DMU service to Kettering. Before this date, the initial Midland Railway built station closed in 1966 after opening in 1879 all at the same location. Notice the odd verticals of the concrete block and the lamposts in this image. This is not as a result of me or the camera's lens but by design; very odd! Keywords: Frontage, Corby station
Frontage, Corby station The story of Corby's railway station has been a tale of a number of openings and closures! The latest station, seen here, is on the same site as the previous ones and opened in February 2009. It was the third example of a modular station design developed by Network Rail, following Mitcham Eastfields and Greenhithe but did not draw universal applause for its design, notably from the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment who really did not like it! Prior to its re-opening in 2009 it was claimed that Corby was one of the largest towns in Europe without a railway station (according to the Independent) following the closure of the previous one in 1990 that had only opened in 1987 offering a well-patronised but poorly operated DMU service to Kettering. Before this date, the initial Midland Railway built station closed in 1966 after opening in 1879 all at the same location. Notice the odd verticals of the concrete block and the lamposts in this image. This is not as a result of me or the camera's lens but by design; very odd! Keywords: Frontage, Corby station


The story of Corby's railway station has been a tale

of a number of openings and closures! The latest station, seen here, is on the same site as the previous ones and opened in February 2009. It was the third example of a modular station design developed by Network Rail, following Mitcham Eastfields and Greenhithe but did not draw universal applause for its design, notably from the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment who really did not like it! Prior to its re-opening in 2009 it was claimed that Corby was one of the largest towns in Europe without a railway station (according to the Independent) following the closure of the previous one in 1990 that had only opened in 1987 offering a well-patronised but poorly operated DMU service to Kettering. Before this date, the initial Midland Railway built station closed in 1966 after opening in 1879 all at the same location. Notice the odd verticals of the concrete block and the lamposts in this image. This is not as a result of me or the camera's lens but by design; very odd!