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Historical notes on the Midland Railway

A brief introduction to the Midland Railway.
A short Midland Railway chronology,
A Midland Railway bibliography.
Midland mileposts, by John Gough.
Derby Registers -- a register of the photographs taken by the Midland Railway's photographer and held at the National Railway Museum in York. The Midland Railway Society is transcribing the part of the Register relating to the Midland Railway and a listing and index can be viewed from these pages.
Extracts from Our Iron Roads -- includes details on early Midland block signalling operation, Parliamentry Committees, Bugsworth and Desborough.
Subsidence at Donisthorpe -- text by Tony Overton, photographs from the Nick Wheat collection.
A photograph of a Deeley Flatiron with London Tilbury & Southend coaching stock -- with notes by Peter Witts.
Notes by Tony Overton on Annett's Key: a simple but effective piece of signalling equipment.
A collection of email between Dave Harris and Tony Overton about Zeppelin air raids.
Midland Railway Distance Diagrams

I'm pleased to be able to include several extracts from Frederick Smeaton Williams' The Midland Railway : it's rise and progress. Many thanks go to Stephen Barker for OCRing the text.

The author's preface to the fifth edition.
A light-hearted account of Trent Station.
The Midland's decision to abolish second-class travel on it's trains and the resulting uproar.

And finally, some very brief notes for genealogists

Our links page contains pointers to other web sites with Midland Railway material.