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 Boston, Sleaford and Midland Counties Railway arrived in 1857.

Later, the railways arrived with the Midland Railway route from Derby to Birmingham arriving in Tamworth in 1847, and later the London and North Western Railway, which provided direct trains to the capital.

In 1863 the Midland reached Buxton, just as the LNWR arrived from the other direction by means of the Stockport, Disley and Whaley Bridge Railway.

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.

Cadets arrived at Midland AAF for twelve weeks of combined ground and flight training, rigorous physical activity and rigid military discipline during a sixteen-hour day, with only part of Sunday off.

The Midland Railway ( later part of the LMS ), arrived first with their north-south running " Doe Lea Valley Line " from Staveley to Pleasley, opened in September 1890 and thus enabling a through service between Chesterfield and Mansfield to be operated, but services were withdrawn as early as September 1930.

The first station on the present site was constructed by the Midland Counties Railway on Campbell Street and was first used on 4 May 1840, when a train of four first and six second-class carriages, pulled by the ' Leopard ' steam engine, arrived from Nottingham.

The first 2-8-0 engines in private service on the Midland Railway of Western Australia ( MRWA ) arrived in 1912.

Finally that day in September arrived when the men settlers from Midland went to the railway in Pasadena to meet their excited families.

The first set, set 01, arrived on the first of September, 1990 and immediately became the subject of industrial action at Westrail's workshops at Midland over a pay dispute and the impending one-man train operation which the new trains would ensure.

The original 1839 line from Derby had run to Hampton-in-Arden railway station, but the Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway had built a terminus at Lawley Street in 1842, then in 1851 the Midland started to run into Curzon Street.

* The North Midland Railway Guide, ( 1842 ) Republished 1973, Leeds: Turntable Enterprises

* Allen, R. ( 1842 ), The North Midland Railway Guide, Nottingham: R. Allen

* The North Midland Railway Guide, ( 1842 ) Republished 1973, Leeds: Turntable Enterprises

* The North Midland Railway Guide, ( 1842 ) Republished 1973, Leeds: Turntable Enterprises

From the Big Spring, the war trail continued south via three branches, one to the southeast through the western part of the Concho country ; one going almost due south, heading for Castle Gap and Horsehead Crossing on the Pecos River ; and one heading west to Willow Springs in the sand country southwest of present Midland, before turning south down the Pecos, all headed ultimately for Mexico.

In 1926, number 5000 Launceston Castle was loaned to the London, Midland and Scottish Railway where it ran trials between London and Carlisle.

* January 8 – Attempting to make an emergency landing at East Midlands Airport in Castle Donington in North West Leicestershire, England, British Midland Flight 092, a Boeing 737-4Y0 crashes just short of the runway on the M1 motorway near Kegworth, killing 47 of the 126 people on board and injuring all 79 survivors.

Derby Airways, which was in the process of being renamed British Midland Airways, moved its operations to the new airport and established its headquarters in nearby Donington Hall in Castle Donington, operating a network of domestic and international scheduled and charter flights at East Midlands.

Castle Donington railway station, on the northern edge of the town, was opened by the Midland railway company in 1868.

BMI ( British Midland ), an airline, is headquartered in Donington Hall, Castle Donington.

Connections are available at Harrow & Wealdstone for a London Midland fast service to London Euston or the Southern service to East Croydon, or the Bakerloo Line calling all stations to Elephant & Castle.

On 3 January 1966 the Midland line closed to passengers and a replacement DMU shuttle began to and from Lancaster Castle.

* Bishops Castle, Midland Red West outstation

Snow Hill is the terminus of the Chiltern Main Line to London Marylebone as well as a number of local services from across the West Midlands, it is also the terminus of the Midland Metro light rail line from Wolverhampton ( via Wednesbury and West Bromwich ), pending the line's extension.

The Midland Metro is a light-rail or tram line in the West Midlands of England between Birmingham and Wolverhampton via West Bromwich and Wednesbury.

To the north of Smethwick High Street on Brasshouse Lane is The Hawthorns again on the " Jewellery Line " and also on the Midland Metro, this station is located next to the West Bromwich Albion Football Club.

The Midland Metro serves parts of Birmingham and Wolverhampton via West Bromwich, Wednesbury and Bilston.

The Midland Metro, a light-rail tram system promoted by Centro / Network West Midlands, connects Birmingham to Wolverhampton via West Bromwich and Wednesbury.

Midland Metro tram 13 running from West Bromwich station towards Birmingham

Scott was the architect of many iconic buildings, including the Midland Grand Hotel at St Pancras Station, the Albert Memorial, and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, all in London, St Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow, the main building of the University of Glasgow, and St Mary's Cathedral in Edinburgh.

Later, Scott went beyond copying mediaeval English gothic for his Victorian Gothic or Gothic Revival buildings, and began to introduce features from other styles and European countries as evidenced in his Midland red-brick construction, the Midland Grand Hotel at London's St Pancras Station, from which approach Scott believed a new style might emerge.

* Midland Grand Hotel, St Pancras Station, London ( 1865 )

File: Midland Grand Hotel, St Pancras Station-geograph. org. uk-1266. jpg | Former Midland Grand Hotel, St. Pancras Station ( 1866 – 76 )

File: Midland Grand Hotel St Pancras spires turrets. jpg | Roof scape, Former Midland Grand Hotel, St. Pancras Station ( 1866 – 76 )

File: St Pancras Railway Station. jpg | Former Midland Grand Hotel, St. Pancras Station ( 1866 – 76 )

File: St pancras clock tower. jpg | Clock Tower, Former Midland Grand Hotel, St. Pancras Station ( 1866 – 76 )

His father was an architect, the son of Sir George Gilbert Scott, a more famous architect, known for designing the Albert Memorial and the Midland Grand Hotel at St Pancras Station.

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.

The line follows a roughly L-shaped route: first northward from Kennedy Station, parallelling the Canadian National Railway / GO Transit's Stouffville line tracks, between Kennedy Road and Midland Avenue, to Ellesmere Road ; then eastward between Ellesmere and Progress Avenue, through Scarborough City Centre to McCowan Road.

Midland was originally established in June 1881 as Midway Station, on the Texas and Pacific Railway ; it earned its name because of its central location between Fort Worth and El Paso.

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.

The Midland Main Line was built in stages between the 1830s and the 1870s, originating in three lines which met at the Tri Junct Station in Derby, which became the Midland Railway.

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.

New platforms for the Midland Metro are due to be built as part of its City Centre Extension to New Street Station, part-funding for which was confirmed in the October 2010 Comprehensive Spending Review.

When the Church of St Luke's, near Kings Cross, was removed to make way for the construction of the Midland Railway Station, the estimated twelve thousand inhabitants of Somers Town at that time were deprived of that place of worship, as the Church was re-erected in Kentish Town.

Due to the need to increase capacity, the brewery was moved in the 2000s to the nearby Midland Mill complex off Station Road.

It meets the similarly subterranean River Sheaf beneath Sheffield Midland Station.

This section from the first roundabout to Station Approach ( B6000 ) includes a viaduct, with spans, that crosses the Midland Main Line.