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Kettering railway station serves the town of Kettering in Northamptonshire, England. It lies south-west of the town centre, on the Midland Main Line, north of London St. Pancras and is served primarily by semi-fast East Midlands Trains Class 222 "Meridian" trains, with some HSTs at peak times. Through fares were made available from 68 UK towns and cities to Paris, Brussels and other destinations in France and Belgium in late 2007, which must be booked through Eurostar. Commuters to London enjoy a high frequency of trains to the capital in the morning and evening peak, with a train (occasionally non-stop) roughly every 20 to 30 minutes. The fastest journey takes 51 minutes. As of late 2009 Kettering is a Penalty fare station: a valid ticket or Permit to travel must be shown on request. == History == The station was opened in May 1857 by the Midland Railway on a line linking the Midland to the Great Northern Railway at Hitchin. Later, the Midland gained its own London terminus at St Pancras railway station. The station was also the terminus of the Midland cross country branch line from via St Ives & Huntingdon from 1866 until closure in June 1959. It was designed by C.H. Driver, with particularly fine "pierced grill" cast ironwork on the platforms. Although altered between 1879 and 1884 when the line was quadrupled, and again in 1896, it is regarded as one of best remaining examples of Midland architecture. At the time, the leather trade being in recession, over half its population was on poor relief. The railway enabled the town to sell its products over a much wider area and restored it to prosperity. In the 1970s the glass canopies became a maintenance headache for British Rail, who proposed to remove the tops of the cast iron columns and replace the glass canopies with plastic sheeting. Kettering Civic Society objected to the plans and the canopies and columns were reprieved, later to be sympathetically restored by Railtrack in 2000. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kettering railway station」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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