‘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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More building at Towcester 2 Replies
I hear there has been more building at the station site in Towcester.Anyone know what they've dug up?…Continue
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Started by Andy Thompson. Last reply by Nigel Nov 7.
Broom History Group Event 9th November 2024
Broom History Group will be holding an event at Broom Village Hall 2-4pm on 9th November 2024 including a film on the railway and Broom Junction.…Continue
Started by Simon Stevens Oct 25.
Misunderstanding Easton Neston 2 Replies
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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
Started by Jack Freuville Aug 29.
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Towcester Station : Northampton Mercury (30th December 1865)
The following article appears over on Flickr...
Sunday 1st May 2016 marks the 150th anniversary of the opening of Towcester Station on the Northampton to Banbury Railway, which occurred without any reportage in the local papers. The contractor building the railway was W Shrimpton, who employed hundreds of navvies and was probably unusually liberal in employing a ‘missionary’ to attend to the men’s spiritual needs. Those attending the missionary’s Sunday services met in the newly constructed Towcester Station House but this soon became too small to accommodate all who wanted to attend. So with the help from some other gentleman, Shrimpton had a wooden chapel erected (probably somewhere near the present Tesco store) to house over 200 people. For the opening of the chapel on Friday 22nd December 1865 he arranged for a large tent to be erected next to the new chapel and invited all those working on the line together with their wives children to an evening tea there. Towcester people were also invited and swelled the numbers attending to over 1000 persons. The inside had been decorated with Chinese lanterns, flags, evergreens and texts from the scriptures. more
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