Midland Railway

Oldest surviving Midland Railway locomotive begins three-year loan at Barrow Hill

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Alex Bestwick

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8th August 2022

The National Railway Museum has signed a three-year loan agreement with the Barrow Hill Engine Shed Society to enable Midland Railway locomotive no.158A to go on static public display at Barrow Hill roundhouse.
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Practice & Performance: Working at Wortley – 1952

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Sam Hewitt

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9th October 2019

Wortley Junction, west of Leeds, was a busy part of the network and had a complex layout. In an unorthodox Practice & Performance, John Heaton FCILT recalls how the ’box was operated, as well as timings of workings on that route. DUSK used to fall early on February afternoons in the northern industrial cities of…
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New canopy for Dore and Totley after long campaign

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Sam Hewitt

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28th September 2019

A NEW canopy is now in use at the station in the south-west suburbs of Sheffield. This follows a long campaign by the Friends of Dore and Totley Station. Dore and Totley is served by Hope Valley line trains and is popular with commuters to Sheffield and Manchester. Campaigners are now seeking more improvements, including…
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Country Railway Routes: Ambergate to Buxton

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Sam Hewitt

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15th September 2019

By Vic Mitchell and Keith Smith MIDDLETON’S ever-expanding library of regional railway histories has found its way to the much-loved – and much-missed – Midland Railway (MR) main line between Ambergate and Buxton. Parts of the route remain open, with the section between Matlock and Rowsley occupied by Peak Rail, and efforts continue to reinstate…
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Bath Green Park: Historic station myths dispelled

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Sam Hewitt

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14th September 2019

Mike Arlett clears up the still-perpetuated myth that the Midland Railway had first opened a branch line from Mangotsfield to a temporary terminus in Bath.
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Barrow Hill completes purchase of Midland ‘Half Cab’ No. 41708

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Sam Hewitt

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21st August 2019

FORMER Midland Railway ‘1F’ 0-6-0T No. 41708 will be returned to full working order for the first time since 2003 following its acquisition by the Barrow Hill Engine Shed Society (BHESS). The purchase of the 1880-built ‘Half Cab’ for an undisclosed sum from the 1708 Locomotive Preservation Trust officially reunites the loco with the shed it…
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Historic stations: Bath Green Park Some myths dispelled!

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Sam Hewitt

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18th August 2019

In the June 1980 issue of The Railway Magazine, Mike Arlett recalled the history of The Midland Station at Bath (renamed by BR as Bath Green Park in June 1951). All these years later it is apparent there still remains some confusion as to the date the station opened and the alleged existence of a…
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Leicestershire’s Lost Railways

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Sam Hewitt

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6th March 2019

By Neil Burgess A NUMBER of rail routes and stations throughout Leicestershire were lost to the ‘Beeching Axe’, but some of the more rural lines in the east of the county lost their passenger services in the 1950s or well before. This mainly pictorial book takes the reader on some interesting journeys – Leicester to…
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LOCAL LOCO TRIALS: 1931 style

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Sam Hewitt

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13th February 2019

In this month’s Practice & Performance, John Heaton FCILT recalls loco trials undertaken by the LMS to assess locomotive coal consumption in a bid to discover whether trains of lower overall weight could cut costs on lesser used lines. Any casual lineside observers on September 9, 1931 at Chellaston (some four miles from Derby on…
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‘Whistler’ Aureol returns to MR-B after five years

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Sam Hewitt

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23rd January 2019

CLASS Forty Appeal’s Class 40 No. 40012 (D212) is now back home at the Midland Railway-Butterley after a five-year absence. It is seen at Swanwick Junction on November 25, having arrived from the East Lancashire Railway (ELR) three days earlier. The transfer was made by rail, hauled by sister No. 40145 on 5Z40, the 08.32 Bury-Butterley. No. 40012…
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