Instead, from 1 January 1923, almost all the remaining companies were grouped into the " big four ", the Great Western Railway, the London and North Eastern Railway, the London, Midland and Scottish Railway and the Southern Railway companies ( there were also a number of other joint railways such as the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway and the Cheshire Lines Committee as well as special joint railways such as the Forth Bridge Railway, Ryde Pier Railway and at one time the East London Railway ).

* MGWR Class D6, a Midland Great Western Railway Irish steam locomotive model

The line, which is just over long, once formed part of the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway.

A museum has been built at Holt to display artifacts from the Midland and Great Northern Railway.

The larger railway companies such as the Great Western Railway and the nascent Midland began to buy up strategic failed lines to expand their network.

The Southwest Michigan Devil Rays moved to Midland, Michigan, and became the Great Lakes Loons prior to the 2007 season.

In the UK the use of modern diesel multiple units was pioneered in Northern Ireland, although a number of other railway companies also experimented with early DMUs ( including the Great Western and the London Midland Scottish ).

Two railways established termini at Cookstown-the London, Midland and Scottish Railway in their dressed stone station designed by Charles Lanyon ( now much altered as a Chinese restaurant on Molesworth Street ) and the Great Northern Railway in their brick station next door ( now Cookstown High School's Hockey Club ).

It is based on the Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway, which operated some of the train services in East Anglia before British railway nationalization in 1947.

It is a railway town that was developed with the coming of the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway line in the late 19th century.

The line west of Aylsham via Cawston and Reepham originally went further to a junction at County School Station ; by this time it instead turned south via a new curve at Themelthorpe to join a fragment of the old Midland and Great Northern system to reach and.

Holt railway station, opened in 1887, was served by the Midland and Great Northern Railway.

The city, along with nearby Midland and Saginaw, form the " Tri-Cities " region, which has more recently been called the " Great Lakes Bay " region.

The line was operated by the Midland Railway, who owned most of the rail network in the area, and was eventually bought by the Midland in part due to interest from the rival railway company, the Great Northern.

It is 21 miles ( 34 km ) long and is named after William Marriott, the chief engineer and manager of the Midland and Great Northern Railway system for 41 years.

Other stations were Dewsbury Central on the Great Northern Railway which closed in 1964 and Dewsbury Market Place on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway which closed in 1930 ; a fourth goods-only station was built in the early 20th century at Savile Town by the Midland Railway.

Broughton was succeeded, and the railway, now called the West Midland Railway, became part of the Great Western Railway.

On 17 January 1862, less than 17 years after the opening to Hereford, the canal was leased to the Great Western and West Midland Railways, with a view to converting it to a railway.

A railway line once served the village – the Midland & South Western Junction Railway ( later part of the Great Western Railway ), which closed in September 1961.

Closures in this period included: the Charnwood Forest Railway, closed to passengers in 1931, the Harborne Line in Birmingham, closed to passengers in 1934, and the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway, closed in 1959.

Long-distance trains from Marylebone began to be scaled back from 1958 after their transfer from BR's Eastern Region to the London Midland Region ( although Marylebone itself, and the first few miles of its route, had belonged to the Western Region since 1950 ), as the former Great Central Main Line was regarded as a duplicate of the Midland Main Line.

Scholars have mapped at least four major regional variations of spoken American English: Northern, Southern, Midland, and Western.

The western side grew around the Midland Railway and what is now the Edgware branch of the Northern Line.

Missouri has elements of three dialects, specifically: Northern Midland, in the extreme northern part of the state ; Southern Midland, in the majority of the state, with a distinctive variation in St. Louis and the surrounding area ; and Southern, in the southwestern and southeastern parts of the state, with a bulge extending north in the central part, to include approximately the southern one-third.

The name turnip is also used in parts of Northern and Midland England, Ontario and Atlantic Canada.

The largest of those utilized in this way were those under the Cheshire Lines Committee: the other participants were the Midland Railway and the Great Northern Railway, taking in both Liverpool and Southport.

Together with the London and North Eastern Railway, the LMS ran the former Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway network.

Through the former Midland Railway holdings, the LMS together with the Great Northern Railway ( Ireland ) jointly owned the County Donegal Railways Joint Committee lines.

On 1 July 1903, the Midland Railway took over the Belfast and Northern Counties Railway and operated it under the name of Midland Railway ( Northern Counties Committee ).

In the city centre of Bath it passes under various bridges including the Midland Bridge which was originally built by the Midland Railway Company to allow the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway access to and from its Green Park Terminus Station.

* Ashby and Nuneaton Joint Railway ( partnership with the Midland Railway ) 1873

These included the Cheshire Lines, the East London, the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire, the Manchester, South Junction & Altrincham, the Metropolitan, the Oldham, Ashton & Guide Bridge, the Sheffield & Midland Joint, the South Eastern, the Wigan Junction and the New York, Lake Erie and Western railways.

There were also some 24 subsidiary railways, leased or worked by the above companies, and a large number of joint railways, including the UK's largest Joint Railway, the Midland & Great Northern, and one of the most famous, the Somerset & Dorset.

* Joint Midland and Great Northern of Ireland Railway 91 miles ( 146 km ), with interests in Ireland

The Midland shared running rights on some lines, but it also developed lines in partnership with other railways, and was involved in more such ' Joint ' lines than any other.

In partnership with the Great Northern Railway it owned the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway to provide connections from the Midlands to East Anglia ; the M & GN was the UK's biggest joint railway.

The two stations were Cromer High ( owned by the Great Eastern Railway ) and the more central Cromer Beach ( owned by the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway ), of which the latter still remains ( now known simply as Cromer ).

It was nearly 30 years later that serious railway competition arrived, when the London and North Western Railway and the Midland Railway jointly opened the Ashby and Nuneaton Joint Railway from Overseal to Nuneaton in 1873.

A number of other lines, already operating as joint railways, remained separate from the Big Four ; these included the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway and the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway.

In partnership with the London, Midland and Scottish Railway ( LMS ), the LNER was co-owner of the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway, the UK's biggest joint railway system, much of which competed with the LNER's own lines.

Spalding was also on the east-west Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway, which had Bourne to the West and Holbeach to the east.

In former times, Cinderford had a railway station that was opened by the Severn and Wye Railway and later run by the Great Western Railway and Midland Railway as Cinderford Joint railway station, but this was axed as part of the Beeching cuts of the 1960s.