Market Harborough : A Railway Crossroads

Market Harborough book cover

The Midland Railway Society is proud to announce the publication of their new book:

Market Harborough : A Railway Crossroads

by John Gough

Soft Back with gloss laminate cover

108 pages (including cover)

297 x 210 mm - Portrait.

ISBN: 978-0-9955142-3-2

Price £14.95 (plus P+P)

The book covers the development of Market Harborough as a junction of three routes:

  1. Rugby to Stamford and Peterborough,
  2. the Midland main line from Leicester to Hitchin and St. Pancras,
  3. The LNWR/GNR lines from Northampton to Nottingham and Newark.

The story starts with the early plans for railways in Leicestershire and Northampton and continues to the remodelled station of 2019.

The book contains over 100 illustrations, the vast majority appearing for the first time in print, along with plans and drawings from the Midland Railway Study Centre.

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We regret that this publication is now sold out.