Electric train staff equipment had been brought into use between Blisworth and Towcester by 9 August 1910 (date of SMJR minute 451 (TNA file RAIL 674/3)) and presumably the new signal box at Blisworth appeared at the same time. In that this was so…Continue
Started by Richard Maund on Saturday.
SMJ board minute 1474 of 13 April 1921 (TNA file RAIL 674/4) approved that “the following expenditure be charged to Capital” for year 1920: “Blisworth: Signalling and alterations to Permanent Way, Improvements and additional signalling: £800”. In…Continue
Started by Richard Maund on Saturday.
Did this railway (as opposed to the East & West Junction Railway) go into receivership - if so, when. And when did it come out of receivership?Continue
Started by Richard Maund. Last reply by Richard Maund Feb 11.
Shall we bring this discussion under the proper heading!So far as the OS plan surveyed 1885, published 1886, is concerned: the OS liked - wherever they could - to have text running parallel to the top and bottom borders. When they came to add the…Continue
Started by Richard Maund. Last reply by Richard Maund Feb 10.
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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