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Althorp Park railway station
Althorp
Park railway station
served
the village
of Althorp in
Northamptonshire, England
.
The station
, which was situated on the
Northampton Loop Line
, was adjacent to
Althorp House
, the
ancestral seat
of the Spencers, the family of
Diana, Princess of Wales
.
History
Opened by the
London and North Western Railway
, it joined the
London Midland and Scottish Railway
during the
Grouping
of 1923. The line then passed on to the
London Midland Region of British Railways
on
nationalisation
in 1948. The station was closed by the
British Transport Commission
in 1960.
The site
today
Trains still pass at speed on the
West Coast Main Line
, as part of the
Northampton Loop
Line
.