MRS Journal No. 5 (July 1997)

Table of Contents

• The Chapeltown Branch Extension : a Centenary / By Roger Brettle
• Freight Services on the Hereford Hay & Brecon Line in 1917 / By Roy Burrows
• Midland Railway Literature (3) / By Ted Hancock
• Comments on Items in Previous Journals
  • Midland Railway Lodging Houses / Lodging Turns
• John Ashwell, Contractor
• Query Corner
  • Query 1: Stations between Bromsgrove and Abbotswood Junction
  • Query 3: Camp Hill
  • Query 2: Control Offices
  • Query 5: Shipment Traffic via Birkenhead
  • Query 6: Where was this photo taken?
  • New Query 7: Bromsgrove Railway Carriage Works
• A Johnson Beauty / By Jack Braithwaite

• Front cover
  This interesting shot of a Down Goods leaving Hay can be associated with the article about freight services over the line commencing on page 7. The photograph has actually been scanned off a laser copy, but should still be fairly sharp.
  [W. H. Smith collection]
• Rear cover
  A bill for bed and breakfast at the Midland Grand, St. Pancras, in 1905. The clientele msut have been reasonably well off for 9/- was quite a lot of money in those days. To many, the advertising of separate rates for accomodation and breakfast is a modern practice, but this shows that the Midland were using the arrangement many years ago.