‘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 Forum
Blisworth - Towcester ETS working
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.
Blisworth 1920
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.
Evesham Redditch & Stratford-upon-Avon Junction Railway 8 Replies
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.
Bidford-on-Avon 5 Replies
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.
SMJ photos
Fire Engine Rail-cars @ Kineton
Again not strictly SMJ but very close to it!
Browsing through the internet recently I came across the photograph below of the two Army Fire Department fire engine rail-cars that were posted to CAD (as it was then) Kineton in the mid sixties when the new fire station there was built. The station rail siding running into it where these rail appliances stood, I believe in their own bay, next to the conventional road appliances.
The photograph displays the machines standing in a scrapyard awaiting their demise in the early seventies. Mention was made that they were built in the mid fifties, if that is the case then they must have either been held in store or utilized somewhere else as they did not arrive at Kineton until somewhen between early 1964 and late 1966.
I apologize to the person who originally took this photograph but I do not have his/ her details to give credits.
A recent drive down the Kineton to Edgehill road indicated that the track was very rusty and a new crossroads for road traffic with level crossing type flashing signals has been installed. I have heard from elsewhere that all rail movement of ammunition has been banned. Does this mean therefore that the sole remaining stub of the SMJ from Fenny Compton to Burton Dassett has now gone out of regular use?
Regards
Dave Hayward.
PS: Was the bridge at Fenny Compton on this stub ever repaired after the lorry strike a couple of years ago?
Dave
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