[1][2] The railway station was fairly inconveniently situated 1.75 miles (2.82 km) from the town itself.

At one time there were plans to extend the Wellingborough – Higham Ferrers branch to Raunds, but the plan was blocked by land owners.

The Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway (the forerunner of the Great Central Railway) proposed a line from Doncaster to Raunds in an early version of its bid to build a trunk line to the capital.

This line never came to fruition, and the company eventually built its London Extension via Nottingham, Leicester, Rugby and Brackley.

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