‘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 12 hours ago.
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 yesterday.
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.
SMJ photos
Images of Stratford Old Town by D J Norton
Thanks go to his son, Mark for letting us display the images on the SMJ site. Please take time to visit Mark's site of his Dad's photographs - full of great images at http://www.photobydjnorton.com
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Comment by John Jennings on June 24, 2010 at 11:47
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Not completly swept away Duncan, the space between the platforms is now a road and you are right that the whole area has been redeveloped but it is possible to see a line of the platform edge copings alongside the new road. How they survived is not clear but as they did not intrude into the new road formation the platform was buried with just this line of copings showing!
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Wow! As a Geordie, my first awareness of the SMJ was from a photo in a little book called Discovering Old Railways by F G Cockman (a most knowledgeable enthusiast, now, sadly, gone). In 1977 whilst on a family canal holday, I went wandering across Stratford and found the plaforms still there and some foundations, all quite overgrown. I was but 17 and took some terribel images on my Kodak instamatice. I presume even these have been swept away by a developer
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