Other Activities

Photographic Collection

The Trust's photographic collection is physically located at Kidderminster Railway Museum, where people who want to obtain copies for personal research etc. can do so as part of that Museum's well-known facility for supplying prints from their own extensive photograph collection. The Trust's photographs are also 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 was the centenary year of the Derby Railway Engineering 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.

Provision of Material for Exhibitions and Displays

The Trust is keen to mount individual displays or exhibitions from appropriate parts of the collection at other locations of Midland Railway interest. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it us to find out more.