‘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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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
Dukedog on railtour at Stratford SMJ
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Comment by Gary on September 14, 2009 at 6:44
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Yes Adrian,
Blisworth had two separate stations. The SMJR one was separate from the LNWR/LMS one and trains going to Northampton from the SMJR had quite a shunt to cross the WCML to get to the Northampton line.
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Comment by adrian vaughan on September 13, 2009 at 19:19
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No - difficult one. It ain't Kineton because the name board on the signal box is wrong. Kineton we do have and the letters are quite large. It was a short name and they seem to have gone for larger letters in the instance. The unidentified place has a signal box nameboard with smaller letters and more of them.
I'm scanning all I have on your railway and I will post them one by one. I'm doing Blisworth SMJ platforms in April 1950 at the moment. I take it I am correct in believing that there was a separate, double track line between platforms for SMJ at Blisworth?
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Adrian,
The layout of the track rules out the Ettington.
Blakesley was on a curve and the pictures seem to show a straight staion.
Kineton does seem to be the most likely as the layout is close to that pictured and the station is one of the few that seem to be near civilisation.
Sorry not much help is it?
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I hazard the guess that the widely spaced platforms is because there used to be more tracks between them. Diminishing traffic permitted the railway to take some 'Middle Sidings' out??
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The photographer's note say April 24th 1955??
Has anyone a suggestion for the station where the 75xxx was photo'd. The Signal Box name is quite unreadable but it it a fairly long name. Blakesley or Ettington but not a two-word name.
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The space between th running lines in the platforms at Stratford was remarkably large and certainly "non-standard" isn't it? DOes anyone know why the platforms were so far apart?
This one is date-able... GWR Dukedog 4-4-0 No.9015 (with 4 on) on the REC "South Midlander" railtour 24 March 55.
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