‘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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More building at Towcester 2 Replies

I hear there has been more building at the station site in Towcester.Anyone know what they've dug up?…Continue

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Broom History Group Event 9th November 2024

Broom History Group will be holding an event at Broom Village Hall 2-4pm on 9th November 2024 including a film on the railway and Broom Junction.…Continue

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Loco N° 5. 2-4-0T

Hi everybodyI’m building a OO gauge model of Fenny Compton and Clifford Sidings over here in Belgium.Quite a strange idea but so be it…In view of this I plan to transform a RTR Beatie Well Tank into SMJR N° 5 the 2-4-0T and use some etchings for the…Continue

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Farthinghoe

Farthinghoe station was primarily a station on the Buckinghamshire Railway and was opened for passenger traffic for trains from Bletchley to Banbury. Cockley Brake near Farthinghoe was originally the junction with the then Northampton + Banbury Junction Railway (N+BJR) and the LNWR.
The Northampton + Banbury Junction Railway, Towcester to Cockley Brake section had two stations, Wappenham and Helmdon, both of which were opened to goods traffic in August of 1871. On completion and ironically, the N&B.J.R. reached neither Northampton at one end nor Banbury at the other under it's own powers.

Passenger numbers on the former N+BJR, former SMJ fell and talk of closures filled the air. July 1951 saw the withdrawal of the Blisworth and Banbury passenger service. The Buckingham and Banbury line was wound down from 1961. Passenger trains between Buckingham and Verney Junction hung on until September 1964 and freight until June 1966.
Although a station on the original Northampton + Banbury Junction Railway there is a big gap in my knowledge, anyone with some more info please feel free to add it
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Permalink Reply by Si Donal on January 16, 2010 at 23:16
Does anyone know if N&B/SMJ trains stopped here. on their way to/from Banbury during the independant years?
Permalink Reply by Dick Bodily on January 17, 2010 at 11:36
Si

Have a look at LNWR Timetable 1908 in the 'Documents' album of the 'Photos' section. It looks as if they did then. In the very early days (1888 timetable) the up trains could only pick up passengers and the down ones set them down, presumably this was so that people wishing to travel between Banbury and Farthinghoe or vice versa had to use the LNWR's own Banbury - Bletchley line trains, by 1894 there seems to have been no such restriction. Details from timetables on pages 37 - 8 of 'The Northampton & Banbury Railway' by Stanley C Jenkins

Dick

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