Search the Study Centre Catalogue.
MR Estate Agent Plans - PDFs of the paper catalogue for this important resource.
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...
The Midland Railway Society Library - titles available to researchers at the Study Centre.
Midland Railway Society Members - resources available exclusively to MRS members.
Categories of items within the collections
HARDWARE (THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECTS)
| CATEGORY | REMARKS |
|---|---|
| Ambulance Equipment | excluding badges and medals which are categorised under “Uniform and Accessory” |
| Building Component | any item used in construction of a railway building including door furniture, but not door nameplates |
| Carriage & Wagon Fitting | |
| Cast Iron Sign | |
| Ceramic | includes both china and salt glazed (earthenware) items |
| Clocks and Watches | |
| Coat of Arms | includes heraldic devices, mounted and unmounted items or cast metal |
| Enamel Sign | excluding signal box nameboards |
| Furniture | |
| Glassware | excludes ink wells |
| Goods Department Equipment | |
| Horse and Dray Equipment | |
| Hotels Department Equipment | |
| Lamp | includes lamp components and fittings |
| Locks and Keys | |
| Locomotive Department Equipment | |
| Locomotive Fitting | |
| Metalware Container | excludes cooking utensils, metal jugs and tins used by the Hotels Department |
| Model | |
| Office Equipment | includes glass inkwells, wallets, blotting pads, cash boxes etc. |
| Pay Check | |
| Permanent Way Component | excluding tools |
| Signal Box Nameboard | |
| Signal / Telegraph Equipment | |
| Silver Plate | includes silver presentation items |
| Social / Welfare | this category also applies to appropriate paper and card items |
| Tool | |
| Uniform and Accessory | |
| Wooden Sign |
PAPER / CARD
| CATEGORY | REMARKS |
|---|---|
| Accident Report | |
| Act of Parliament | |
| Agreement Inter-Company | |
| Arbitration Document | |
| Book (Commercially Published) | |
| Carriage Print | includes carriage panel containing advertisement or notice |
| Constituent Company Document | constituent of the Midland Railway Company |
| Directors’ Diary | |
| Early Midland Document | |
| Envelope | includes departmental envelopes |
| Joint Line Document | includes post grouping items where permitted by the Collection Development Policy |
| Labels | This generic term is subdivided for categorisation purposes... —Luggage Label —Parcel Label —Wagon Label |
| Magazine Reprint | |
| Menu | includes items printed on silk |
| Newspaper | including newspaper cuttings |
| Notices to Staff | These are divided under two headings for categorisation purposes... —Notice to Enginemen —Notice to Staff (all notices intended to be displayed at the workplace – except the special series “Notice to Enginemen”) |
| Operating Documents | This generic title covers all documents issued in connection with operating the railway. It is sub-divided for categorisation purposes... —Timetable (Working) (including excursion trains) Appendix to Working Timetable —Weekly Notice to Engine drivers, etc. (this is the Weekly Notice covering signal alterations and engineering work) —Operating Document (all documents not otherwise included above) |
| Parliamentary Paper | |
| Patent Documentation | |
| Photograph | including photographic negatives and slides |
| Picture | excludes photographs and postcards |
| Postcards | John Alsop has published listings of pictorial railway postcards covering both official (i.e. produced by the railway company for sale to the public) and commercial (i.e. produced and sold by private companies). The Alsop lists are extensive, authoritative and, whilst they do not cover all postcards, can be said to be, to railway postcards, what the Stanley Gibbons catalogue is to postage stamps. Alsop is therefore used as the basis for sub-dividing this generic term for categorisation purposes... —Postcard (Commercial - Alsop) —Postcard (Commercial - Non-Alsop) —Postcard (Official - Alsop) —Postcard (Official - Non-Alsop) |
| Publicity | —Handbill —Poster —Publicity (if less than approximately A4 size is categorised as Handbill) —Guide Book / Booklet (Hotels) —Guide Book / Booklet (Tourist Programme) |
| Public Timetables | The following sub-divisions are used for categorisation purposes... —Timetable (Privately Published) —Timetable (Public) —Timetable (Sheet) (see OPERATING DOCUMENTS for Working Timetables) |
| Railway Clearing House Publication | |
| Railway Land Document | |
| Reference Paper | |
| Royal Train Material | |
| Rule Book | includes Bye-Laws in book form |
| Share Certificate | includes Share Transfer Certificates |
| Social / Welfare | includes Midland Railway Institute and applies also to three-dimensional objects |
| Staff Record | |
| Ticket | includes Edmondson, paper and card |
| War Memorial Item |
DRAWINGS, DIAGRAMS, MAPS and PLANS
These related terms have been allocated specific definitions for categorisation purposes:
MAP: used for documents which show geographical locations where the scale is equivalent to, or less than, 6 inches : 1 mile.
PLAN: used for documents which show geographical locations where the scale is greater than 6 inches : 1 mile.
DIAGRAM: used for documents which show geographical locations and/or layouts but are not to scale.
DRAWING: used for documents which depict non-geographically related objects and includes those both to scale and not to scale.
DEPARTMENTAL CATEGORIES
| CATEGORY | REMARKS |
|---|---|
| Accountant’s Department Document | |
| Burton & Ashby Light Railways Document | |
| Carriage & Wagon Department Document | |
| Company Meeting Paper (Shareholders) | |
| Dividend Statement | |
| Engineer’s Department Document | |
| General Manager’s Department Document | |
| General Manager’s Order | |
| Goods Department Document | |
| Goods Manager’s Circular | numbered |
| Hotels Department Document | |
| Locomotive Department Document | |
| London, Tilbury & Southend Section Document | |
| Marine Department Document | |
| Mineral Department Document | |
| Northern Counties Committee Document | |
| Report and Accounts | |
| Secretary’s Department Document | includes items previously in the “Share Document” category |
| Stores Department Document | |
| Traffic Department Document | |
| Superintendent’s Circular | numbered |
SUCCESSOR COMPANIES
| CATEGORY | REMARKS |
|---|---|
| LMS Departmental Document | |
| BR Departmental Document | Includes BR, BR(LMR), British Rail and Midland Lines |
| Derby Museum items | and others items outside the Collection Development Policy |
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