‘The Stratford Upon Avon & Midland Junction Railway’ (or S.M.J.) was a small independent railway company which ran a line across the empty, untouched centre of England. It visited the counties of Northamptonshire, Warwickshire, Oxfordshire and a little of Buckinghamshire, only existing as the SMJ from 1909 to 1923. In 1923 the S.M.J.became a minor arm of the London Midland and Scottish (L.M.S.), then in 1948 'British Railways'
Gone but not forgotten: "the damsel is not dead, but sleepeth"
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SMJ Bridge number for sale.
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.
Bridge sign
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 on Tuesday.
SMJ Postage stamps 1911 and 1924
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.
More building at Towcester 3 Replies
I hear there has been more building at the station site in Towcester.Anyone know what they've dug up?…Continue
Tags: Towcester
Started by Andy Thompson. Last reply by John Evans Apr 19.
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Towcester Station : Northampton Mercury (30th December 1865)
The following article appears over on Flickr...
Sunday 1st May 2016 marks the 150th anniversary of the opening of Towcester Station on the Northampton to Banbury Railway, which occurred without any reportage in the local papers. The contractor building the railway was W Shrimpton, who employed hundreds of navvies and was probably unusually liberal in employing a ‘missionary’ to attend to the men’s spiritual needs. Those attending the missionary’s Sunday services met in the newly constructed Towcester Station House but this soon became too small to accommodate all who wanted to attend. So with the help from some other gentleman, Shrimpton had a wooden chapel erected (probably somewhere near the present Tesco store) to house over 200 people. For the opening of the chapel on Friday 22nd December 1865 he arranged for a large tent to be erected next to the new chapel and invited all those working on the line together with their wives children to an evening tea there. Towcester people were also invited and swelled the numbers attending to over 1000 persons. The inside had been decorated with Chinese lanterns, flags, evergreens and texts from the scriptures. more
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