‘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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SMJ photos
Tramway
Looks like nothing doesn't it? Oh no! The hump running left to right immediately after the brown muddy area in the foreground is the site of a quarrying tramway which was taken across the SMJ right next to bridge 3 (Blisworth to Gayton road) on bridge 2. Only one set of piers still survives of bridge 2. Picture on site.
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Comment by Andy Thompson on November 1, 2010 at 16:31
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This whole field was quarried around 1900. Quote: Blisworth.org.uk
http://www.blisworth.org.uk/images/Mining/Mining-Map.htm
http://www.blisworth.org.uk/images/Mining/Blisworth_mining.htm
"Another field was mined with a dispatch point to the railways, labelled (8 - refer to map link above), and was run by another entrepreneur, R.B.Sparrow according to Tonks, who was simultaneously serving the expanding iron industry. Dispatch point (8), which is in Gayton parish, consisted of a wooden 'bridge' passing over a standard gauge railway linked to the SMJ line. From the bridge, wagons were emptied into rail wagons.
Tony Marsh Feb 2008
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