Freight Trains on the Corby Line – A Look Back at the 1990s

In the 1990s, the Corby line in Northamptonshire remained a vital freight route long after the decline of local passenger services. This video explores the line's role in serving British Steel’s tube works, with regular traffic bringing in steel coils and moving finished products across the UK. Class 56s, and 60s tackle the single-track branch to Kettering, hauling BDA bogie wagons and coil carriers through rural Midlands scenery. Though the blast furnaces were long gone, Corby's steel heritage lived on through these freight workings—until the slow decline of rail-served industry by the end of the decade.