‘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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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
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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
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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
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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
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Tale from the old line...
I am not sure how true it is due to the slight confusion in the dates quoted as the event appears to be in the future when it was written. Make of it what you will.
Taken from More Tales of Old Railwaymen, Tom Quinn ISBN: 1 85410 862 X pp41
Funeral Train
In the early 1900’s Tom Holton’s father was stationmaster at Towcester and the family lived in the station house. When Tom’s sister died in an epidemic, the railway company put on a special train to carry the coffin and mourners to their ancestral home at the village of Slapton 5 Miles away.
The train waited at the nearest point to the church while bearers carried the coffin ½ mile along a field path to the churchyard where the burial took place. The track was single line so no other train could pass.
The family were then conveyed back to Towcester.
The train company, the Stratford-upon-Avon & Midland Junction Railway, was more than once in the receiver’s hands, but it was not too poor to pay this compliment to a faithful servant.
The Railways of England, W. M. Acworth, 1889
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That would have been a point on the Northmpton - Banbury about midway between Greens Norton Junction and Wappenham.
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