‘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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Kineton


 

 

 

The East & West Junction railway (E&W) proposed a new line from a junction with the Northampton & Banbury Junction
Railway at Greens Norton to Stratford Upon Avon.
In 1864 Lady Palmerson came and cut the first sod.
The E&W became a part of the SMJ in January 1st, 1909.

 

Blakesley

Morton Pinkney

Woodford Halse

Byfield

Fenny Compton

BurtonDassett/Edgehill Light

Kineton

Ettington

Stratford Upon Avon

Binton

Bidford

Broom

Kineton Camp

 

One of the original two East & West Junction Railway terminii dating from 1871. The station had a brick built goods shed
and station building. The only section to remain of the SMJ is a
short section which runs from the former SMJ/GWR junction at Fenny
Compton to Kineton HIVE, DSDA Kineton M.O.D. station.



 
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Comment by Si Donal on January 10, 2010 at 21:09
There's an edwardian picture of Kineton Station here;

http://www.heritageexplorer.org.uk/web/he/searchdetail.aspx?id=3064...

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