‘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
Started by Richard Maund on Saturday.
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
Started by Richard Maund. Last reply by Richard Maund Feb 11.
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
Started by Richard Maund. Last reply by Richard Maund Feb 10.
SMJ photos
Images of Stratford Old Town by D J Norton
Thanks go to his son, Mark for letting us display the images on the SMJ site. Please take time to visit Mark's site of his Dad's photographs - full of great images at http://www.photobydjnorton.com
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Comment by John Jennings on June 24, 2010 at 11:47
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Not completly swept away Duncan, the space between the platforms is now a road and you are right that the whole area has been redeveloped but it is possible to see a line of the platform edge copings alongside the new road. How they survived is not clear but as they did not intrude into the new road formation the platform was buried with just this line of copings showing!
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Wow! As a Geordie, my first awareness of the SMJ was from a photo in a little book called Discovering Old Railways by F G Cockman (a most knowledgeable enthusiast, now, sadly, gone). In 1977 whilst on a family canal holday, I went wandering across Stratford and found the plaforms still there and some foundations, all quite overgrown. I was but 17 and took some terribel images on my Kodak instamatice. I presume even these have been swept away by a developer
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