‘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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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

Started by Robin Leslie Patrick. Last reply by Dave Hayward Jun 8.

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

Started by Simon Stevens. Last reply by Simon Stevens May 17.

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DETAILS OF THE PLATFORM SIDE OF E&W SMALL STATIONS

Hi everyone,

Not been online for a while, been modelling but more importantly for this forum, preparing some drawings of the small SMJ (ex E&W) Station buildings at Byfield, Morton Pinkney and Blakesley. These have been scaled form photos in the Jan, Feb and March editions of Railway Bylines magazine.

There does seem to be a lack of photos of the platform side of these buildings. I am particuarly keen to find out what was under the small platform canopies at these three almost identical stations. I would be interested to see a view of the platform face of these stations and also the non-toilet end of the buildings.

There was no door on the road side of these stations so the entry doors must be on the platform sides but was there also a window? Did passengers have to walk onto the platform to enter the building?

I have a scanner and would be happy to upload my (albeit amateurish) scale drawings if there was interest.

I hope someone can help.

Kind regards to you all

Simon

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Permalink Reply by Si Donal on January 19, 2010 at 16:49
Thanks Dick.

I'll leave them as they are for now a deep brown. I'll keep the model I build pre-war because it's the most interesting period (apart from the SMJ days of course!) I have noted the engineering brick on the corner of the gents in the Bylines article. I think that must be a late addition because as you say it's not obvious on LMS period pictures nor is it apparent at Morton, Byfield or Ettington. The modesty wall surrounding the Gents door will be modelled when the building is slotted into place on the platform. I'll have to buy fire buckets though.......

The posterboards seem to have come and gone over time and I understand that railway companies paid for advertising space on other railway stations so I suppose it's not suprising that the Midland and Great Central should have boards at Blakesley. I think GWR Boards might be one step too far though!

Thanks again for your insight.

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