Tag: Midland Railway Society

Supporting Butterley’s Victorian Weekend

A stall with a selection of second-hand railway books and a Midland Railway Society banner behind

As part of the Midland Railway Society’s “outreach” activities, and just as much because we are good friends, we have a presence at Midland Railway – Butterley’s Victorian event over this bank holiday weekend. Saturday has been a good day and we have high hopes for Sunday and Monday. If you are able, please come […]

Midland Railway Society collaboration with Sinfonia Viva

A six-lever interlocking lever frame as used in a signal box. It is painted dark blue with grey levers and is located in the Museum of Making at Derby.

The Midland Railway Society were today involved with our partners, Derby Museums, in an imaginative collaboration with Sinfonia Viva — the Orchestra of the East Midlands. Students from Firs Primary School, Becket Primary School, The Bemrose School, and Derby College — together covering a wide range of age groups — were given the challenge of […]

More detail about the Midland Railway Society’s involvement with Railway 200

A small vertical boilers locomotive fixed to a traverse table moves a Midland Railway carriage from one road to another between the sheds at Derby's Litchurch Lane Carriage & Wagon Works

UPDATED Tuesday, 25 February 2025 Following the recent coverage of Alstom’s launch event for their Greatest Gathering, we are understandably getting enquiries as to what the Midland Railway Society will be doing to mark this bicentenary. We will be holding Open Days over two weekends – 5th/6th July and 13th/14th September –  when we will […]