Kettering (KET)

Kettering is a stop on the Midland Main Line in Northamptonshire between Wellingborough and Market Harborough or Corby.

EMR 222 101 arrives at Kettering

Information
Type:	National Rail (Midland Main Line)
Station code:	KET
Opened:	1857
Platforms:	4

The station was opened by the Midland Railway in 1857. The station was originally small with just a single platform though was expanded when the line through it was quadrupled in 1879, three more platforms were built [1]. The current station building dates from a rebuild by the Midland Railway in the late 1890s. The station also gained an engine shed and goods shed in the late nineteenth century. These have now gone of course. The goods yard was closed in 1980 [2]. The engine shed in 1965 [3].

The station was renamed Kettering for Corby in 1970 after the closure of Corby station. The name was changed to Kettering & Corby in 1975. After the reopening of Corby station in 1987, Kettering station was restored to it's original name.

The station today retains much of it's Midland Railway feel, and the Grade II listed station building is one of the best surviving examples of the company's architecture. The station has canopies over much of the platforms mixed with more modern shelters, access between the platforms is via a footbridge and lifts. The station is managed by East Midlands Railway.

Down the platform, under the MR canopies

View across to platforms 2 and 3 which are an island

Platform view

Preparing to go

EMR 360 103 on a service from Corby

[1] Vic Mitchell & Keith Smith, Kettering to Nottingham (Middleton Press, 2015) Fig. 3

[2] Ibid. Fig. 6

[3] Vic Mitchell & Keith Smith, Wellingborough to Leicester (Middleton Press, 2015) Fig. 28