AGM2025 – Collections Report
An unavoidable late start to this year’s AGM, followed by a necessarily lengthy debate about financial matters resulted in the Collections Report being significantly curtailed in order to break for lunch at a reasonable time. So that the full report gets an airing, it is presented here in its unabridged form. AGM 2025 Collections Report […]
Mr. Lewis Director’s Pass
A new acquisition to the collection is worthy of remark, and a big thank you to our member, Richard Hodges, for spotting it at auction and keeping us updated on its progress. It is a Mother of Pearl Director’s Pass in the name of Mr. Lewis. The reverse has Midland Railway with a wyvern device. […]
The Derby Registers and a brief outline the Derby Official Photographers
How to find the Derby Registers on the new site…. The index to the Derby Registers, otherwise known as Derby Official photographs, which was formerly hosted on the old Midland Railway Society website, can now be found on the Midland Railway Study Centre website. Please update any bookmarks you may have to them – https://www.midlandrailwaystudycentre.org.uk/derby-registers/ […]
Large collection of MR photographs available for download
Thanks to the generosity and painstaking scanning & cataloguing work of Ian Howard, we are able to make available 308 high quality Midland Railway views of locations and stations collected by the late Jack Braithwaite. Though some are relatively common, there are also a lot of very rare views in this collection. All of them […]
General Committee of the Deputations From Railway Proprietors
A new acquisition into the Midland Railway Society’s collection in the Midland Railway Study Centre…. Minute of Meeting held in the Liverpool & Manchester Railway Offices, 26th March 1836. Deputations present from; Liverpool and Manchester, Grand Junction, London & Birmingham, North Union and Midland Counties. The committee founded for protecting the interests of the several […]