‘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'
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Comment by Andy Thompson on November 1, 2010 at 16:50
On the map below, below the O of Gayton where the tramway goes over bridge 2 crossing the SMJ, see it enter the field along-side the Gayton/Blisworth road and disappear under the bridge?
That field was quarried around 1900 and the temporary line originally connected the quarry to the railway at Wheldons sidings, being diverted/extended under the Gayton/Blisworth road to the Gayton Farm quarry site
and eventually down to Richard Thomas's sidings a few chains along towards Blisworth
Comment by Andy Thompson on November 1, 2010 at 15:26
Comment by Andy Thompson on November 1, 2010 at 15:25
Bridge 2 (Tramway bridge) took a tramway from Gayton Wood farm to an exchange siding which fed the private sidings which ran down to a north facing chord on the mainline.
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