Carriage and Wagon Building on the Midland Railway

by Charles Henry Jones. Paperback, 22 pages, illustrated with photographs and plans.

Charles Henry Jones was Assistant Locomotive Superintendent at Derby from 1888 to his retirement in 1905. His description of the Midland Railway’s Carriage and Wagon Works at Litchurch Lane, Derby, originally appeared in Cassier’s Magazine in January 1898. This reprint includes many additional photographs taken at the Litchurch Lane works by the Company’s official photographers, Thomas Scotton and his son Thomas Albert Scotton. This book concludes with a short biography of Thomas Gething Clayton, Carriage and Wagon Superintendent from 1873 to 1902, who was responsible for planning and building the Litchurch Lane works.