‘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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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.

PPhoto Albums 1 Reply

AndyAbout two years ago I ended up with some railway matter from a Bill Kendall who had been a Signalman on SMJ ending his railway career at Northampton No 1. I worked with him when I was working in Rugby PSB, I also covered the signa?l boxes at…Continue

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Broom Junction station site for sale 3 Replies

Great opportunity for an SMJ enthusiast perhaps. I'm not sure what you could actually do with this site though!…Continue

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Projected and fulfilled 19th C Railways aasociated in one way or another with the SMJ

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Whilst I was researching the A2A archives @ http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a for something else I came upon a series of railway projects that were submitted to the Northamptonshire Quarter Sessions (The then planning authority!). The full records for all of these projects are held in the Northamptonshire Record Office. I have accessed them for other projects, they are well worth a visit, the detail in these submissions is really informative.

Many of these projects never even fulfilled Acts of Parliament let alone came to fruition but some did.

I have put copies of the outline of each of these applications below. They are not in any specific order.

A2A is a wonderful research tool for any type of historical research.

Hope you find this of interest.

Dave Hayward

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Selection of Proposals.doc, 37 KB

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Permalink Reply by Stuart Ison on June 28, 2011 at 20:55

Re the first Railway mentioned on your listing.

Is there a map of the route “Kineton, Butlers Marston, Combrook. Wellesbourne Hastings, Pillerton Hersey, Eatington (Warwicks.); Alderminster (Worcs.); Preston on Stour (Gloucs.); Atherstone upon Stour (Warwicks.); Clifford Chambers (Gloucs.); Old Stratford & Drayton (Warwicks.)” as I live near .

Do these names refer to the Parish or the actual village ?

Thanks

Stuart Ison

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Permalink Reply by Dave Hayward on June 29, 2011 at 0:03

I am not sure. I will visit there sometime in the next couple of months or you might fancy a trip to Northampton yourself - I suggest you phone them first to check the opening hours.

The references are to parishes, not villages.

Regards

Dave Hayward

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Permalink Reply by Simon Dunkley on August 2, 2011 at 20:53

I would hazard a guess at Parish names: as an example, "Duston West" signal cabin in Northampton is so named because it is in that parish, but have spent my first ten years in Duston (or Dusson!), I always reckoned it was closer to Far Cotton!

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