‘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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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
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Cutting just after bridge No 120
There was a two-and-a-quarter mile post here. The base of the cutting was quite marshy.Cows roamed in the cutting. Bridge 122 is in the far distance. (March 19 1966).
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Comment by Dick Bodily on September 10, 2012 at 10:03
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According to 'Mysterious Northamptonshire' by Daniel Codd this section of line is haunted by a ghost train!!! A man allegedly 'recently' got out of his car to relieve himself near the Silverstone Road bridge when he saw a train's headlight coming towards him along the trackless formation. I think that if he saw anything at all, it might well have been ball lightning (St Elmo's Fire), a rarely encountered natural phenomenon, which I once observed and I can vouch for it's scariness!
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