‘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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magnet fishing

Hi everyone, yesterday I did some magnet fishing with the grandchildren from the SMJ bridge over the river Tove in Towester, to great excitement of the children (and myself) we pulled out three chair screws and a rivet which looked similar in style…Continue

Started by Steve Camm on Tuesday.

One of the best preserved SMJ bridges? 1 Reply

I was at Ettington the other day and apart from the good shed, which has had a lot of money spent on it including full glazing, the station building is still there. But my attention went to the station bridge (No. 73?) which is in very good…Continue

Started by John Evans. Last reply by Andy Thompson on Sunday.

Passenger Trains connected to the SMJ

Following on from the previous discussion about WD passenger trains on the SMJ during the 1940s; it must be said that passenger trains ran on metals connected to the SMJ until the mid 1960s. There was a passenger service from the nearest point to…Continue

Started by Dave Hayward Jun 16.

Wartime passenger trains from Burton Dassett 3 Replies

Arthur Jordan in his book, The Stratford Upon Avon and Midland Junction Railway - The Shakespeare Route at pp 82 mentions a WW2 late night special from Stratford on Avon to Burton Dassett for soldiers at the CAD. I would envisage that this did not…Continue

Started by Dave Hayward. Last reply by Dave Hayward Jun 16.

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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.