Corby railway station
Corby 
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| Location | |
| Place | Corby |
| Local authority | Borough of Corby |
| Coordinates | 52°29′20″N 0°41′17″W / 52.489°N 0.688°WCoordinates: 52°29′20″N 0°41′17″W / 52.489°N 0.688°W |
| Grid reference | SP891886 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | COR |
| Managed by | East Midlands Trains |
| Number of platforms | 1 |
| DfT category | E |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 0.217 million |
| – Interchange |
710 |
| 2012/13 |
0.233 million |
| – Interchange |
773 |
| 2013/14 |
0.256 million |
| – Interchange |
907 |
| 2014/15 |
0.270 million |
| – Interchange |
1,098 |
| 2015/16 |
0.278 million |
| – Interchange |
 1,028 |
| History | |
| 1879 | opened |
| 18 April 1966 | closed |
| 1987 | reopened |
| 1990 | closed |
| 23 February 2009 | reopened |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Corby from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Corby railway station, owned by Network Rail and managed by East Midlands Trains (EMT), is in Corby, Northamptonshire, England. The current station, opened on 23 February 2009, replaces an earlier one dating from 1879, first closed on 18 April 1966 but reopened between 1987 and 1990.
Plans for the current station, opposite the original, were approved in late 2007. It opened with just one daily train each way on Mondays to Fridays. The full current service of hourly trains to and from London began on 27 April 2009, after East Midlands Trains had taken delivery of the additional trains needed for its implementation.
The Midland Railway opened Corby station in 1879. It was on the Midland's 'alternative route' between Kettering and Nottingham, serving Corby, Oakham and Melton Mowbray, instead of Market Harborough, Leicester and Loughborough. The station was initially named "Weldon and Corby" to avoid confusion with Corby Glen station in Lincolnshire, which closed in 1959.British Railways (BR) withdrew passenger services from all stations on the Oakham to Kettering Line, including Corby, in May 1967. For some decades, Corby was one of the largest towns in Europe without a railway station (claimed as the largest in an episode of Series C of BBC TV show QI in 2005); only a few, such as Herten in Germany and Łomża in Poland, are larger.
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