The Midland Railway Study Centre is a collaboration between:

• The Roy F. Burrows Midland Collection Trust - (web site)
• The Midland Railway Society - (web site)
• Derby Museums - (web site)

It houses the largest publicly accessible collection of Midland Railway ephemera. On this site you will find full details about the Study Centre, its contents, how to use it, and what else the partner organisations can do to assist in finding information about the Midland Railway.

The Midland Railway Study Centre is very proud to be a Partner in Excellence with the National Railway Museum.

Search the Study Centre Catalogue

The Study Centre catalogue is available on this link.
The results on this web site now include a thumbnail view of the item where such an image exists in our catalogue.

Partners in Excelence and Other News

In March the three organisations which form the Midland Railway Study Centre signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the National Railway Museum to establish their relationship as 'Partners in Excellence'. More details of this partnership can be found here.

Other recent events affecting the Study Centre are reported on our News page and some of the recent donations and acquisitions, including the very important 'Dunbar' and 'Pat Larkam' collections of MR signalling documentation are detailed on the Recent Additions page.

The Silk Mill - home of the Midland Railway Study Centre

The Study Centre reading room

Large object store