‘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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I hear there has been more building at the station site in Towcester.Anyone know what they've dug up?…Continue

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Started by Andy Thompson. Last reply by Nigel on Sunday.

Broom History Group Event 9th November 2024

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

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Misunderstanding Easton Neston 2 Replies

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Loco N° 5. 2-4-0T

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

Started by Jack Freuville Aug 29.

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Towcester Station Building

Hi everyone, I am building a model of Towcester Railway station in N Gauge, I was wondering if anyone had any details of the building itself( blue prints would be nice!)anything would be useful, photographs or dimensions.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Brian

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Permalink Reply by Gary on July 17, 2012 at 10:37

I think Andy may have some information as to sizes I believe.

I have no idea on the internal layout though.

I did start out to make an exact dimension N-gauge layout of Towcester from the Bridge 149 to just after the NCC sidings on the opposite side of the A5 - it was huge! Sadly it stalled and did not survive a couple of house moves. I think there are photos somewhere of the scale of it. Found them!

There is a modelling group on here and as you will see the pictures are in there.

I made a rude model of the goods shed a year or two back and spent ages looking at pictures and literally counting the bricks on them! I had to guess the non-rail side only for a short time later a picture turn up on here of that side and I wasn't too far out.

Good luck with your project.

Gary

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Permalink Reply by Brian Elphick on July 17, 2012 at 11:02

Hi Gary

Thanks for the info, your project sounds almost identical to mine. I have only just started though. Living in Towcester it seemed the ideal thing to do. I will put some updates and photos as the layout progresses.