‘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
Comment by Dick Bodily on November 16, 2009 at 12:10
Charwelton's ironstone workings would have been just off the top of this map. Woodford New yards were built possibly later north of the shed yard sidings shown on the map (north of the Byfield Road).The Old Yards would have been in place by this time on either side of the mainline just between the two brown roads. this looks very much like a WW2 time map which may have onitted the site of the yards for security reasons. The triangular junction with the SMJ would be just off the bottom of themap.
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