The Peckwash Mill Disaster — 1st December 1900 / By David Harris
Speed restrictions
Beyond the Boundaries / By David Geldard
Some Midland Railway Company Notices
Comments on Items in Previous Journals
Midland Railway Literature [No.16]
Service Messroom Band
Books, Periodicals and Chess
More memories of George Pratt
Query Corner
Query 25 : Early 0–4–2 locomotives
Query 26 (new query) : Where was this photograph taken
Query 28 (new query) : The station hut, Derby
Front cover On Foreign Territory: 25 Class 2–4–0 No. 26 arriving at Worcester Shrub Hill, sometime between 1903 and 1907. On the back of this photograph it is recorded that the train was the 10.15am from Birmingham, so the time is around 11.0am. During this particular period, the train started from Sheffield at 8.0am and ran to Bristol, with through carriages from both Heysham and Nottingham. By 1910, it had been re-routed via Dunhamstead, with a Worcester portion being detached at Birmingham, from where it departed 10.18am. It is possible that a service in similar timings continued for many years. The editor can certainly remember travelling on a Sheffield to Worcester service in the late 1950s and early 60s, which left Derby at 9.5am.
[Roy F. Burrows Midland Collection Trust]
Rear cover This notice from the days before electronic announcements is self-explanatory. No doubt the people to whom it was aimed would also be able to give reasonably accurate information about timekeeping and the reasons for delays.
[MRS Collection, courtesy Peter Holmes]
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