The Hollow, Earl Shilton, Leicester, UK: Midland Counties Publications, 1979.

Leicester, UK: Midland Counties Publications, 1994.

Hinckley, Leicestershire, UK: Midland Counties Publications, 1976.

The Boston, Sleaford and Midland Counties Railway arrived in 1857.

The Midland Counties Railway from Nottingham to Derby through Beeston was opened on 30 May 1839.

In 1838 the London and Birmingham Railway was constructed around the town, and in 1840 the Midland Counties Railway made a junction with the London and Birmingham at Rugby.

Hinckley, Leicestershire, UK: Midland Counties Publications, 1979.

Hinckley, Leicestershire, UK: Midland Counties Publications, 1998.

Midland Counties.

On the same day the Midland Counties Railway, which ran from Derby and Nottingham to Leicester Campbell Street, was extended from Leicester to a temporary station on the northern outskirts of Rugby.

A few months later, the Rugby viaduct was finished and the Midland Counties Railway reached the London and Birmingham Railway's Rugby station.

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 ).

The former was opened in the 1840s by the North Midland, Midland Counties and Birmingham & Derby railway companies to meet their joint requirements for locomotive, carriage and wagon construction and maintenance.

The Midland Railway Consolidation Act was passed in 1844 authorising the merger of the Midland Counties Railway, the North Midland Railway, and the Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway.

Leading it were the dynamic but unscrupulous George Hudson from the North Midland, and John Ellis from the Midland Counties, a careful businessman of impeccable integrity.

After the merger, London trains were carried on the shorter Midland Counties route.

Two obvious extensions of the Midland Counties line were from Nottingham to Lincoln and from Leicester to Peterborough.

The Midland acquired a number of other lines, including the Belfast and Northern Counties Railway in 1903 and the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway in 1912.

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 ).

The first British railway to build coaches with bogies, instead of rigidly mounted axles, was the Midland Railway in 1874.

He had by this time settled into semi-retirement, supervising his mining interests in Derbyshire-tunnelling work for the North Midland Railway had revealed unworked coal seams, and Stephenson put much of his money into their exploitation.

* London, Midland and Scottish Railway

These include the London Underground, Docklands Light Railway, Blackpool Tramway, London Tramlink, Glasgow Subway, Tyne and Wear Metro, Manchester Metrolink, Sheffield Supertram, Midland Metro and Nottingham Express Transit.

The Texas and Pacific reached town in 1876 ; the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway ( later merged into the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway ) and the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway in 1887 ; the Texas Midland ( later Southern Pacific ) in 1894 ; and the Paris and Mount Pleasant ( Pa-Ma Line ) in 1910.

London Midland Magazine – February 1963 – article on the Pneumatic Dispatch Railway in London

* May 27 – Sir William Stanier, English steam locomotive engineer ( London, Midland and Scottish Railway ) ( d. 1965 )

The MCR system connected with the North Midland Railway and the Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway in Derby at what become known as the Tri Junct Station.

The MCR made an agreement with the North Midland for exclusive access to its passengers.

Caledonian Railway ( CR ), Furness Railway ( FR ), Glasgow and South Western Railway ( GSWR ), Highland Railway ( HR ), Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway ( LYR ), London and North Western Railway ( LNWR ), Maryport and Carlisle Railway ( MCR ), Midland Railway ( MR ), North London Railway ( NLR ) and North Staffordshire Railway ( NSR )

In a war of " dirty tricks ", the MCR made an agreement with the North Midland for exclusive access to its passengers.

An example of this is the British narrowboat, which is up to long and wide and was primarily built for British Midland canals.

His Scottish father was manager of the Midland Bank's Wembley branch.

His father, in 1829, was appointed a magistrate for the Midland District.

When he was aged 10, his family scraped together the money to send him to Midland District Grammar School in Kingston.

Laura Lane Welch was born in Midland, Texas, the only child of Harold Welch ( 1912 – 1995 ) and Jenna Louise Hawkins Welch ( born 1919 ).

According to the accident report released by the city of Midland in 2000, in response to an open-records request, she was not charged in the incident.

Mark Edward Whitacre ( born May 1, 1957 ) came to public attention in 1995 when, as president of the BioProducts Division at Archer Daniels Midland ( ADM ), he was the highest-level corporate executive in U. S. history to become a Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) whistleblower.

Lee was born Norma Deloris Egstrom in Jamestown, North Dakota, the seventh of eight children of Marvin Olof Egstrom, a station agent for the Midland Continental Railroad, and his wife Selma Amelia ( Anderson ) Egstrom.

In the Midland Revolt of 1607, the name was used to refer to those who ' levelled ' hedges in enclosure riots.

However, author Brian Keogh concluded in his privately published history of the Lea & Perrins firm on the 100th anniversary of the Midland Road plant, that " No Lord Sandys was ever governor of Bengal, or as far as any records show, ever in India.

Chancery Standard was largely based on the London and East Midland dialects, for those areas were the political and demographic centres of gravity.

* Also during 1965 through 1968, Dr. Albert M. Kligman was contracted by the Dow Chemical Company to perform threshold tests for TCDD on inmates at Holmesburg Prison in Philadelphia after Dow studies revealed adverse effects on workers at Dow's Midland, Michigan plant were likely due to TCDD.

Rolls was introduced to Henry Royce by a friend at the Automobile Club, Henry Edmunds, who was also a director of Royce Ltd. Edmunds showed him Royce's car and arranged the historic meeting between Rolls and Royce at the Midland Hotel, Manchester, on 4 May 1904.

This cavalry force was composed of the few Midland English Royalists who had rallied to Charles II, and largely consisted of Lord Talbot's troop of horse.

Much of the film version was shot at Carnforth railway station in Lancashire, then a junction on the London, Midland and Scottish Railway.

The club was formed in 1901 when struggling Football League Club Burton Swifts amalgamated with Midland League ( and ex-Football League ) club Burton Wanderers.

The Art Deco Midland Hotel was built in 1932-33 by the London Midland & Scottish Railway to the design of Oliver Hill and included works by Gill, Marion Dorn and Eric Ravilious.

The third railway at Temple Meads was the Bristol and Gloucester Railway which opened on 8 July 1844 but was taken over by the Midland Railway ( MR ) on 1 July 1845.

The following year saw local services on the Midland Railway route to Gloucester withdrawn and the former Midland route to via was closed on 7 March 1966. and on the line towards Bath survived until 5 January 1970.

Clayton Wheat Williams, Jr., the 1990 Republican gubernatorial nominee, was reared in Fort Stockton but resides in Midland.