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Home History Purpose Study Centre Other Activities Gallery Updated Inventory Donations Links Contact Trust Members Recent Additions Items of Interest Updated MRS Journal New Email the Trust	OTHER ACTIVITIES Settle & Carlisle Line Kidderminster Railway Museum Provision of Material for Exhibitions and Displays Two examples of the several hundred timetables (public and working) in the Trust's collection at the Study Centre.
	THE SETTLE & CARLISLE LINE Many years ago, Roy acquired the two Tyers No 6 instruments from Garsdale and Hawes, together with a fibre tablet for that section, which were passed to the Trust in 2000. These are not Midland Railway items, because the Tyers No 6 system was not installed between Hawes and Garsdale until the North Eastern Region of British Railways took over responsibility for the line in the 1950s. These have now been restored to working order and will shortly be displayed in the Visitor Centre at Ribblehead in association with the Settle & Carlisle Railway Trust. Examples of various types of Midland Railway cast iron mileposts will also be put on display in the Visitor Centre. Meanwhile, in the restored station at Kirkby Stephen, our small exhibition of items is located in the meeting room there - known as the Midland Railway room. The Prince just after the formal unveiling of the plaque commemorating the restoration of Kirkby Stephen station. HRH The Prince of Wales on the footplate of 6233 "Duchess of Sutherland" just before departure of the royal train from Kirkby Stephen after the opening ceremony at the restored station. The Prince travelled on the footplate as far as Appleby. Back to Top Kidderminster Railway Museum The Trust has provided the contents of the Midland Railway Alvechurch booking office display which may be seen at Kidderminster Railway Museum. Alvechurch Booking Office at Kidderminster Railway Museum displaying some items from the Trust's collection Photographic Collection The Trust's photographic collection will be physically located at Kidderminster Railway Museum, where people who want to obtain copies for personal research etc. will be able to do so as part of that Museum's well-known facility for supplying prints from their own extensive photograph collection. The Trust's photographs will also be able to be viewed on screen in the Study Centre at Derby and orders for prints from KRM can be taken there and then. Nearly a thousand are fully available and, although progress on getting photographs available for viewing has been slow, Trustees have now taken steps to make an additional 3,000 photographs available in the near future, albeit with limited captions. Derby Railway Engineering Society 2008 is the centenary year of the above society, which has been in continuous existence since Midland Railway days. The Trust Chairman and Secretary were invited as official guests to the Society's Centenary Dinner at the Midland Hotel in Derby and we were able to mount a small display of some items from the collection for the benefit of the dinner guests. Pictured on the occasion of the dinner are, from left, Society President, Peter Parkin; Anne and Roy Burrows, Secretary and Chairman respectively of the Trust; the Mayor of Derby, Councillor Pauline Latham; the Mayor's consort, Derek Latham; the guest speaker for the evening, Richard Brown, chief executive officer of Eurostar. Photograph courtesy Derby Evening Telegraph. Back to Top
	Provision of Material for Exhibitions & Displays The Trust is keen to mount individual displays or exhibitions from appropriate parts of the collection at other locations of Midland Railway interest. Email us to find out more.
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