‘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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BLAKESLEY and an SMJ stamp

This item has come up in an auction recently and is a glimpse of the practice of carrying mail by train. Apart from the SMJ…Continue

Started by Graham Ward Nov 14.

Further about Ravenstone Wood Junction 1 Reply

Firstly a belated thanks to Barry for his excellent research that has returned these signal lever plates to their rightful home! [Perhaps their place of residence on the website needs changing!] Apologies for starting s new Forum discussion on this…Continue

Started by Dave Hayward. Last reply by Barry Taylor Oct 23.

Ravenstone Wood Junction Signal Box-an anomaly 3 Replies

Closely examining the brass lever plates shown in the Olney Line entry in the Index Section of this website I noticed a significant anomaly. Some of the above plates, specifically 1, 10, 11, 12, 25, 32, 34. refer to platforms, loading dock, goods…Continue

Started by Dave Hayward. Last reply by Barry Taylor Oct 9.

SMJ keys from the Towcester area 1 Reply

I have been contacted by someone who wishes to dispose of two sets of SMJ-related keys from the Towcester area, but does not want to put personal email or other details on this website. They have been given to him by the estate manager at Easton…Continue

Started by Barry Taylor. Last reply by Barry Taylor Sep 4.

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Towcester Station Building

Hi everyone, I am building a model of Towcester Railway station in N Gauge, I was wondering if anyone had any details of the building itself( blue prints would be nice!)anything would be useful, photographs or dimensions.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Brian

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Permalink Reply by Gary on July 17, 2012 at 10:37

I think Andy may have some information as to sizes I believe.

I have no idea on the internal layout though.

I did start out to make an exact dimension N-gauge layout of Towcester from the Bridge 149 to just after the NCC sidings on the opposite side of the A5 - it was huge! Sadly it stalled and did not survive a couple of house moves. I think there are photos somewhere of the scale of it. Found them!

There is a modelling group on here and as you will see the pictures are in there.

I made a rude model of the goods shed a year or two back and spent ages looking at pictures and literally counting the bricks on them! I had to guess the non-rail side only for a short time later a picture turn up on here of that side and I wasn't too far out.

Good luck with your project.

Gary

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Permalink Reply by Brian Elphick on July 17, 2012 at 11:02

Hi Gary

Thanks for the info, your project sounds almost identical to mine. I have only just started though. Living in Towcester it seemed the ideal thing to do. I will put some updates and photos as the layout progresses.