Cotton End LNWR Shed

[neal]

Sadly the Network rail building based at Cotton End is currently well ablaze.

 

Another piece of Northampton railway history most likely destroyed 🙁 

 

Neal

Edited June 28, 2022 by neal

[neal]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-61974881

 

This was Northampton’s oldest engine shed, then carriage shed. Sad news.

 

Neal

[Trog]

I thought that was an old goods shed? the LNWR engine shed being in the triangle to the west of there.

[neal]

This was the original LNWR shed near Bridge St on the Blisworth to Peterborough line built in 1845, before the Northampton Loop.

 

The triangle came later with the loop and Northampton Castle station connections to Rugby and Market Harborough.

 

When the loop was established this became a coach shed, with a goods shed the other side of the running lines.

 

N

Edited June 29, 2022 by neal
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[Trog]

Interesting as there was what looked like a raised loading platform in it where the PW Supervisors office was in the 1980's and just a single line of rails set in the floor to one side of it.