An East and West Junction and Stratford-On-Avon, Towcester and Midland Junction Railways bridge weight notice, cast iron, 16½"x11¾", the front repainted. As is usual, the company title has been altered to Stratford-On-Avon and Midland Junction…Continue
Started by Graham Ward. Last reply by Russ Firth 15 hours ago.
Stratford & Midland Junction Railway bridge number 42. This is a very rare bridge number, which hardly ever comes up for sale! 28cm x 20cm. It was from a cattle creep between Byfield & Morton Pinkney. £500. PayPal payment required and I can…Continue
Started by Russ Firth on Wednesday.
A couple of items recently up for auction.GREAT CENTRAL RAILWAY COMPANY AND STRATFORD-UPON-AVON & MIDLAND JUNCTION: 6…Continue
Started by Graham Ward May 21.
I hear there has been more building at the station site in Towcester.Anyone know what they've dug up?…Continue
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Started by Andy Thompson. Last reply by John Evans Apr 19.
During the posturing that took place between John Bell of the Metropolitan Railway and Pollitt of the MS&LR on the run up to the building of the Great Central extension to London, the Met tried to get a route northwards from Aylesbury to Mor(e)ton Pinkney, ostensibly to link up with the East & West Railway. Bell's real motive was to ensure that he and his railway got their full share of control of the projected new GCR route. The Act was not passed so permission was not given. The anomosity between the two railways continued after the MS&LR linked up with the Met so much so that eventually the GCR as it became built a joint line with the GWR through Wycombe.
Just imagine if it had gone ahead with perhaps a Metropolitan A class tank bound for Baker Street waiting with a rack of 6 wheelers in a bay at a much larger Morton Pinkney station . Perhaps Morton would have become the main hub of the the GCR and not Woodford. Perhaps the GCR might have even spelt Moreton Pinkney correctly! I doubt if it had gone ahead that it would done much good for the E&EJR (later SMJR) after all the Met's link to Verney Junction did next to nothing for The Buckinghamshire Railway.
Of course the actual GCR route DID go to Moreton Pinkney where its station much nearer to the village than the E&WJR one was inaccountably named Culworth after a village over 2 miles distant. My great-great grandfather's small farm was decimated by the building of the station he gave up farming and with the compensation he received the family moved to a house in Blakesley. My gran who lived at the farm saw the GCR being built and lived to see it closed. She loved the farm life of her childhood, resented the railway being built, and was one of the few people locally who was a bit pleased to see the line closed.
This is an appeal to anyone who has any info on the actual proposed route for the Met line to Moreton Pinkney or anything at all about this proposed line, With the family link previously mentioned to the Culworth station site I'd love to know more about the Met proposed line.
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