Northampton

Getting there & away

Northampton has good rail links with Birmingham (one hour, hourly) and London Euston (one hour, at least every 30 minutes). The train station is about half a mile west of town along Gold St.

National Express coaches run to London (£10.60 single, 2¼ hours, five daily), Nottingham (£10.20, 2½ hours, daily) and Birmingham (£5.70, one hour 40 minutes, two daily). The truly awful Greyfriars bus station is on Lady’s Lane, just north of the Grosvenor shopping centre.