Dear Andy,
My father lived both at Yardley Hastings and Hackleton in his youth and remembered the line operating in the 1920s (the Towcester - Ravenstone Wood section), and the line was always known as "The Bread & Herring" for reasons unknown to us.
My earliest memories were when on one Saturday afternoon in May 1950 I was taken by my parents to view the trains at Blisworth. O…