‘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"
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
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
Really enjoying the pictures you have. Thanks for taking time to post them for people like me who were unable to experience the line until some 20 years after closure.
I think most of the line was rather optimistically constructed to take a second line. There are many photos of over bridges and such with an empty trackbed span.
Comment by Peter Fleming on August 21, 2009 at 11:12
The date of this is Aug 15 1963. The station buildings were demolished by then. The road bridge in the background (road to Slapton) appears to be optimistically constructed for double track, or at least a passing loop.
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