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Item No. 63333
Locomotive number 45565 at Ex-Midland Railway Trent station.
Item No. 72436
Postcard from the Chris Rouse Collection: Interior of Leicester London Road station as shown on postcard no. S 6848, published in the Kingsway Real photo series. This view is looking north along Platform 2 with a lengthy down train getting ready to leave. Note the W.H.Smith bookstall on the left.
[Duplicates RFB23540]
Item No. 99-0750
Johnson 2183 class 4-4-0 No. 2197 photographed at Kentish Town shed sometime in the years around 1900. Part of the weighbridge and the guttering on the weighbridge machine house can be seen at the right of the picture and a wonderfully neat whitewashed coal stack was behind the locomotive. The livery of the latter was immaculate, possibly after the locomotive being recently out of the paintshop here. The markings on the leading splasher were the legacy of the cleaners using an oiled cloth to shine the paintwork. No. 283 was renumbered 417 in November 1907. The tower of Read's bottling stores can be made out beside the engine's dome.
Item No. 03300
Edmondson ticket 5390 Ordinary 3rd class single Castle Donington to Chellaston & Swarkestone
Item No. 72240-25
The caption on the back of this image reads “44477 on return excursion to Sheffield approaching Bamford 7.6.60”. The stamp on the back suggests the photographer was Gordan Coltas and it was published under the ‘Locofotos’ brand. No. 44477 was a Fowler 4F of 1927 vintage that spent most of its existence at Grimesthorpe shed before withdrawal a year after this photograph.
THE MIDLAND RAILWAY STUDY CENTRE
War Service Records
There are two important sources of information about the men of the Midland Railway who served their country in what was then known as The War To End All Wars. Of course, those who remained home to continue running the railway also served their Country, especially the hundreds of women who entered the workforce for the first time.
• For King and Country — the men who Joined Up in 1914
• A booklet was sent to the families of each of the men listed on the MR War Memorial — each one of them solemnly recorded with name, rank and regiment.
“The total number of employees of the Midland Railway Company who went out to take their part in the great fight against aggression was twenty-two thousand nine hundred and forty-one. Of this number, two thousand eight hundred and thirty-three made the supreme sacrifice, and those of us who are living under the freedom purchased at the cost of these lives cannot allow the memory of their devotion to die.”
— Frank Tatlow, General Manager of the Midland Railway
in his letter to the families of those listed on the Company War Memorial.
November 1921.
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