‘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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SMJ Forum
magnet fishing
Hi everyone, yesterday I did some magnet fishing with the grandchildren from the SMJ bridge over the river Tove in Towester, to great excitement of the children (and myself) we pulled out three chair screws and a rivet which looked similar in style…Continue
Started by Steve Camm Sep 1.
One of the best preserved SMJ bridges? 1 Reply
I was at Ettington the other day and apart from the good shed, which has had a lot of money spent on it including full glazing, the station building is still there. But my attention went to the station bridge (No. 73?) which is in very good…Continue
Started by John Evans. Last reply by Andy Thompson Aug 30.
Passenger Trains connected to the SMJ
Following on from the previous discussion about WD passenger trains on the SMJ during the 1940s; it must be said that passenger trains ran on metals connected to the SMJ until the mid 1960s. There was a passenger service from the nearest point to…Continue
Started by Dave Hayward Jun 16.
Wartime passenger trains from Burton Dassett 3 Replies
Arthur Jordan in his book, The Stratford Upon Avon and Midland Junction Railway - The Shakespeare Route at pp 82 mentions a WW2 late night special from Stratford on Avon to Burton Dassett for soldiers at the CAD. I would envisage that this did not…Continue
Started by Dave Hayward. Last reply by Dave Hayward Jun 16.
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E&WJR No2 Drawing
A trace from the Beyer Peacock Archive Drawing. Dated 1880, this is E&WJR No 2, later SMJ No 2A and LMS 2300. Details of the brakes have been ommitted from the drawing. The original drawing is scled at 10mm/1 foot.
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Comment by Simon Dunkley on September 5, 2010 at 9:13
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The details in the MOSI search engine for this are:
Collection: Beyer, Peacock & Co. Ltd
Object summary: General arrangement drawing of East & West Junction Railway '0-6-0' locomotive
Order No 6021
Name of Draughtsman: Fox
Registration number: A1966.24/MS0001/3/31047
This produces a thunmbnail image, click on this get an image at 23%, which can be resized.
The URL, assuming I can get this to work properly, is:
http://emu.msim.org.uk/htmlmn/web/pages/common/imagedisplay_mosi.ph...
The MOSI search engine is not the easiest to use, and there is facility to order things (as far as I could tell) by, say, order number or date.
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