www.midlandrailwaystudycentre.org.uk
THE MIDLAND RAILWAY
STUDY CENTRE

This page sumarises all the on line resources which are avaialble from this web site.

Please note that material downloaded from this web site may be subject to copyright and may not be reproduced without consent.

The Stephen Summerson Collection catalogue


An Information Sheet detailing the Company's First Aid courses and Ambulance awards.


Full details of the Signalling Plans of the RFBMCT collection.


A list of Signalling Notices and Weekly Notices available for research.


A page about Permanent Way drawings within the collections.


A page detailing the Staff Records within the collections.


To illustrate the variety in the Midland Railway's operations, here is a drawing of a Burton and Ashby Light Railway tram car.


Two chain plans of Wirksworth Station and Willenhall Market Place Station on the Walsall to Wolverhampton Branch, dated 1902. Also, a series of photographs of the 1905 track diagram of Rowsley.


A colourful map of the M&GN Joint system.


From our limited Staff Records collection: "My Memoirs", eight pages of undated, handwritten notes by Mr. J.A.HICKMOTT born in 1889 at Highgate, London, written whilst living in Tewkesbury. (2 3 4 5 6 7 8)


Photographs of documents
Johnson single drawing
This drawing of a Johnson Single is a particularly good example. Click the image for a 824kb version (Copyright image).

Burton and Ashby tramcar
Another interesting drawing to surface is this 1919 outline of a Burton and Ashby Light Railway tramcar. (152kb. Copyright image).
Group photo at Derby St Mary's Goods Yard

A group photo at Derby St Mary's Goods Yard.
Click the photo to download a larger (200kb. Copyright image).

Loco Dept staff list

If your relative happened to work in the Locomotive Department of the Midland Railway in 1864, this document may interest you. It lists the number of men employed by the company in each grade and their rate of pay (and the wide variation in pay is quite remarkable).

The Roy F. Burrows Midland Collection Trust Web Site has an expanding Gallery of photographs illustrating objects in the collection which potential visitors to the Study Centre may find interesting.
This web site is maintained by Dave Harris, the Study Centre Coordinator
Email: enquiries@midlandrailwaystudycentre.org.uk
Midland Railway Study Centre
Silk Mill Lane, off Full Street, Derby, DE1 3AF
Tel: 01283 702689
Page last updated: 14JUL2010