‘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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Passenger Trains connected to the SMJ

Following on from the previous discussion about WD passenger trains on the SMJ during the 1940s; it must be said that passenger trains ran on metals connected to the SMJ until the mid 1960s. There was a passenger service from the nearest point to…Continue

Started by Dave Hayward Jun 16.

Wartime passenger trains from Burton Dassett 3 Replies

Arthur Jordan in his book, The Stratford Upon Avon and Midland Junction Railway - The Shakespeare Route at pp 82 mentions a WW2 late night special from Stratford on Avon to Burton Dassett for soldiers at the CAD. I would envisage that this did not…Continue

Started by Dave Hayward. Last reply by Dave Hayward Jun 16.

PPhoto Albums 1 Reply

AndyAbout two years ago I ended up with some railway matter from a Bill Kendall who had been a Signalman on SMJ ending his railway career at Northampton No 1. I worked with him when I was working in Rugby PSB, I also covered the signa?l boxes at…Continue

Started by Robin Leslie Patrick. Last reply by Dave Hayward Jun 8.

Broom Junction station site for sale 3 Replies

Great opportunity for an SMJ enthusiast perhaps. I'm not sure what you could actually do with this site though!…Continue

Started by Simon Stevens. Last reply by Simon Stevens May 17.

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Aston Le Walls

Gentlemen! Another request, we have missed out Aston Le Walls as a station on the former E&W section of the of SMJ as was.
I know it was a late addition to the string of stations and it wasn't much. I understand it was put in for local farmers and landowners to ship produce to the outside world.

Does anyone have any images, information etc so as we can put together a page to help complete the set. (If anyone has anything on the Northend Platform too that would be nice)

Andy

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Permalink Reply by Dick Bodily on November 28, 2009 at 19:08

Some information about Aston-le-Walls siding with many thanks to Rex Partridge.

'During the construction of RAF Chipping Warden airbase building materials were unloaded at the the little ramp like platform that was immediately to the Byfield side of the bridge and south of the line. These materials were then taken in RAF lorries to the base. A man named Fred Horton who is believed to have originated from The Black Country was employed as a shunter there during the war and possibly for a while afterwards. He became bored with the job as he had so little to do and sucessfully applied for a shunter's job at Woodford.'

There has been a delay in the printing of Rex's article about the SMJ. He doesn't know exactly when it will appear now.