‘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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More building at Towcester 2 Replies
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Broom History Group Event 9th November 2024
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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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SMJ photos
Single Fairlie gents?
- Comment by Colin Franklin on December 8, 2010 at 5:16pm
- There is an interesting photo of the Double Fairlie that was purchased from the Yorkshire Engine Company in 1876 in "Branch Lines Around Towcester - The S&MJR Routes" by Vic Mitchell and Keith Smith. However, are there any photos of the Single Fairlie that came with it too at the same time? Both engines went in 1877.
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The only picture that I know of is this one taken when the Single Fairlie had moved on to the Swindon Marlborough & Andover Railway, where it lived on until around 1892, although it is debatable about how much work it actually did there.
It seems to have left the East & West Junction around 1876/7 - very possibly appeared at an exhibition at Paris in 1878 (probably after refurbishment by the makers) and then on to the SMAR.
Anyone interested in the very old locos of the E&WJR might like to look at the article in the latest 'Railway Archive' journal No.29, which I put together after finding some newspaper references to the French loco 'La Savoie', which disgraced itself near Woodford by setting fire to some lineside property !
Best wishes to all for Xmas
Barry
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