It was renamed Northampton Bridge Street in 1876, after a new station was built for the line to Market Harborough.

[5] The station meant that people could travel to Wellingborough, Irthlingborough and Peterborough more quickly than before.

[6] Freight trains continued to use Bridge Street regularly until 1972; a lone remaining group of corporate sidings finally closed in 2005.

There is still a Network Rail depot on the south side of the line, which includes an old LNWR shed.

On 22 October 2013, the West Northamptonshire Development Corporation announced that it had agreed to purchase the disused Northampton Bridge Street branch line from Network Rail for £1.5 million to create a two-mile (3 km) cycle and pedestrian path linking the Brackmills Industrial Estate to the Northampton Enterprise Zone.