‘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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National Archives, Donation and Kineton Photograph
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Wheldons Sidings - Richard Thomas's sidings
Track Layout Plans Diagrams Section 29 With great thanks to R.A. Cooke.
Albums: Gayton Farm - Maps
Location: Gayton, Blisworth, Northamptonshire
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Comment by Andy Thompson on November 1, 2010 at 12:47
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Further down from bridge 2 was Richard Thomas's sidings. The sidings acted as a transshipment point for quarrying materials from, amongst other places, Gatyon Wood Farm quarries. Note the branch running to bottom left. This branch ran up hill and through a cutting to the the concrete over-bridge under the Blisworth/Gayton road.
At the point where the branch joins the SMJ and opposite was (and still is)bridge 1A. My belief is this bridge connected the quarrying to the north of the Richard Thomas's sidings to the sidings itself for transshipment and probably had something to do with the Wheldon sidings.
Can you help?
Andy
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