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Long Buckby railway station is a small railway station next to the village of Long Buckby, Northamptonshire, England. It is the nearest railway station for the town of Daventry, away.The station is on the Northampton loop of the West Coast Main Line. It is served by London Midland services to and. For Virgin Trains inter-city services passengers should change at, the next station to the west.The station was opened along with the line in 1881, by the London and North Western Railway, as one of several wayside stations between Northampton and Rugby.The station facilities are very basic, the original station buildings were demolished and replaced with simple 'bus shelter' type shelters on the platforms. A cabin next to the car park now serves as the part-time ticket office.ServicesLong Buckby is served by three London Midland trains per hour in each direction: i.e., three northwestbound to via and, and three southeastbound to and., the station has a part-time ticket office.On Sundays there is an hourly New Street to Euston via Northampton that calls, along with the hourly London Midland service between London Euston and Crewe via the Trent Valley Line and. The latter service also runs on Monday to Saturday but does not call here or at Northampton (it runs instead direct between Milton Keynes and Rugby).Royal funeralSince the closure of station in 1960, Long Buckby has been the nearest station to Althorp, the family home of the Earls Spencer. In 1997 Long Buckby station was where the Prince of Wales, Prince William and Prince Harry arrived from London after the Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales. Prince Charles and his sons took a different route to Althorp using Brington Road while the rest of the Royal Family and guests were driven through the village of Long Buckby leaving the village via East Street to follow the main Northampton road to Althorp.