nassington station closed to passengers on 1 july 1957, (at the same time as wansford railway station and castor railway station,the next two stations east towards peterborough), and to goods on 3 august 1957. the line remained open until the withdrawal of the passenger service from rugby (midland) to peterborough (east) on 6 june 1966. on that date the section from rugby (midland) to kings cliffe was closed completely, but the line east of kings cliffe station remained open for goods traffic. on 3 june 1968 kings cliffe station was closed to goods along with the track as far as the junction with a private siding into the ironstone quarries owned by naylor benzon west of nassington station. the last train to the quarry ran on 4 january 1971, and the siding and railway at nassington finally closed on 26 february 1971.