Midland Railway
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The Midland Railway (MR) was a railway company in the United Kingdom from 1844 to 1922. It had a large network of lines managed from its headquarters in Derby. It became the third-largest railway undertaking in the British Isles after the Great Western Railway and the London and North Western Railway.
The company was formed in 1844 by the merger of the Midland Counties Railway, the North Midland Railway, and the Birmingham & Derby Junction Railway. The Birmingham & Gloucester Railway joined two years later. The earlier systems met at Derby railway station. The MR established its locomotive works, and later its carriage and wagon works, at Derby.
In 1923, the MR became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway under the Railways Act 1921.
Midland Railway Media
Midland Railway boundary marker at Sutton Bonington, Nottinghamshire, July 2019
1920 general map of Midland Railway
1840 print of Curzon Street railway station in Birmingham
An illustration of King's Cross station from 1852, shortly before its use by the Midland Railway
The interior of the Barlow train shed, c. 1870
MR sign at Rowsley Station, now on heritage line Peak Rail
The Grade II* listed Manchester Central train shed, a northern terminus of the Midland Railway.
The Ribblehead Viaduct, a recognisable feature of the Settle-Carlisle Railway in April 2006
Midland locomotive visiting the North Norfolk Railway, once part of the M&GN, which the Midland part owned
