The Midland Railway Assemblage Trail - self-guided tours of a selection of our objects in the Museum of Making.
For King and Country - the men who Joined Up in 1914 and those listed on the MR War Memorial.
Resources for modellers of Midland Railway locations or pre-grouping locos & stock
Including the searchable database of Carriage & Wagon drawings.
Information booklets published by the Midland Railway Society and downloadable without charge...
The Midland Railway Society Library - titles available to researchers at the Study Centre.
The Journal Index - a fully searchable index to the Midland Railway Society Journal.
Midland Railway Society Members - resources available exclusively to MRS members.
Some random images from our catalogue for you to enjoy...
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Item No. 10501
Cast iron slot repeater indicator (pop-up)
MR 11.4 (painted)
Item No. 13469
Letter dated 30 August 1881 from Midland Railway Secretary to shareholder inviting payment of dividends direct to bank account with attached form of authorisation (See also Items 13457 and 13575)
Item No. 15638
Luggage Label Type: MT6
Form No: P. F. 70. Print Ref: R 2a.
Destination: LIVERPOOL
Item No. 66982
A Deeley 990 class 4-4-0 locomotive number 995 at Leicester.
Item No. 04111
Edmondson ticket 1792 Ordinary 3rd class single Charfield to Lydney Junction (G.W.& M.) via Sharpness
Item No. 63788
Ex-Midland Railway Crouch Hill signal box on the Tottenham and Hampstead line (Joint MR/GER).
Item No. 20456
One inch Ordnance Map from Land Agent's Office Derby, dated 1899.
Series No. 1 Title: None (area around Berwick-on-Tweed)
O.S. No.
Item No. 11229
Signal lever identification plate, lever side plate.
Hand engraved " MAIN LINE CROSSOVER "
WINGFIELD STATION
Historic Building Record
The formal Historic Building Record commissioned by Derbyshire Historic Buildings Trust was published on 8th October 2021 by its author, Mel Morris Conservation. We are delighted that the Study Centre has been chosen to be a digital repository for Historic Building Record. It can also be downloaded direct from the ADS Easy service under OASIS ID 20009865, who also host all of the 174 JPEG images.
The recording has been undertaken to a Level 3 Historic England survey. This is set out In the Historic England publication of 2016 “Understanding Historic Buildings: A Guide to Good Recording Practice”. This comprises a systematic account of the building's origins, development and use and an account of the evidence on which the analyses is based, allowing the validity of the record to be re-examined in detail. It also includes drawn and photographic records.
The analysis includes a high degree of analytical assessment, utilising comparative examples, where appropriate, to put the building into context, both nationally and internationally, given the context of the development of railways worldwide. Building investigation involves a detailed examination of the structure, and evidence of phasing, architectural styles, plan elements and decorative schemes, fixtures and fittings.
The assessment includes map regression to assist in determining the phasing of the buildings and associated structures. This includes the Ordnance Survey records from the 19th and early 20th century, the Tithe map, estate maps for the Strelley estate, and railway maps, which are deposited in various archives, including Rail Track archives and the Midland Railway Study Centre. The assessment also investigates British Newspaper Archive records of incidents on the line and advertisements for the opening of the line, and census records, to expand on an understanding of development and the use of the buildings at different dates.
The complete document comprises an 83 page, copiously illustrated, PDF with five appendices and measured survey drawings as separate files. The main file can be downloaded either as a lower-resolution version which has been compressed to make it faster to download, or in its full resolution version.
Download the full version (74.6MB)...
Download the compressed version (17.2MB)...
View or download the appendices and measured survey drawings from Dropbox (external link) ...
With our gratitude to Derbyshire Historic Buildings Trust for allowing us to share this document.
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