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TICKETS OF THE MIDLAND RAILWAY
and CONSTITUENT COMPANIES

By David G Geldard

The Midland Railway Study Centre is delighted to be able to make available a series of free PDFs each of which has been prepared from an album in the David G Geldard Collection of British Pre-grouping Railway Tickets.

The objective of this part of the collection is to follow and describe the development of each category of ticket used by the Midland Railway, its constituent companies and its joint lines. It comprises 19 volumes grouped into two sections as shown below. Each volume copiously illustrates tickets relevant to its respective subject, accompanied by annotation based on extensive research undertaken over a 60 year period.

The linked files on this page are all downloadable on the basis of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Licence.

A collection of a dozen rectangular Midland Railway tickets with a variety of station names. Bright colours are used including varieties of oranges, yellows, pinks and greens.

The first section covers the Midland Railway, the London Tilbury & Southend Railway and the other Midland Railway constituent companies.

The PDFs are as follows:

Volume 1 — Ordinary singles and returns (standard) (22.5Mb).
Volume 2 — Ordinary singles and returns (non-standard); rail motor and omnibus tickets (14.9Mb).
Volume 3 — Specified train tickets (11.1Mb).
Volume 4 — Excursion tickets (20.8Mb).
Volume 5 — Reduced fare tickets with standard conditions (18.5Mb).
Volume 6 — Commercial traveller, market, tourist, privilege, weekend and workman’s tickets (27.8Mb).
Volume 7 — Shipping-related tickets (23.8Mb).
Volume 8 — Free passes (edmondson); dog and article tickets; non-travel tickets; paper and large card tickets. (34.3Mb).
Volume 9 — Free passes and season tickets (31.5Mb).
Volume 10 — L. T. & S. R.: ordinary singles and returns; other categories A - F (edmondson) (20.5Mb).
Volume 11 — L. T. & S. R.: other categories G - Z (edmondson); paper and large card tickets (32.0Mb).
Volume 12 — Other M.R. constituent companies (30.2Mb).

The second section covers the three principal joint railways in which the Midland held an interest — the Cheshire Lines Committee, Midland & Great Northern Railways Joint Committee and the Somerset & Dorset Railway Joint Committee, together with all other lines partly in Midland ownership.

The PDFs are as follows:

Volume 1 — C.L.C. constituent companies; C.L.C.: ordinary singles and returns (13.3Mb).
Volume 2 — C.L.C.: all other tickets (21.8Mb).
Volume 3 — M.& G.N.J.R.C. and constituent companies;
Norfolk & Suffolk Joint Committee (36.9Mb).
Volume 4 — S.& D.J.R.C. and constituent companies (14.8Mb).
Volume 5 — Great Western and Midland Railways Joint Lines (19.0Mb).
Volume 6 — Other jointly owned lines A - P (15.0Mb).
Volume 7 — Other jointly owned lines Q - Z (23.5Mb).