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Midland Railway Company

LC control no.n 50049407
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Corporate name headingMidland Railway Company
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Variant(s)Midland Railway (Great Britain)
See alsoBirmingham and Derby Junction Railway Company
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Midland Counties Railway Company
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North Midland Railway (Great Britain)
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London, Midland and Scottish Railway Company
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Absorbed corporate body: Leicester & Swannington Railway
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Absorbed corporate body: Hereford, Hay and Brecon Railway
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Found inJarvis, P.K. Steam on the Birmingham Gloucester Loop, 1985: t.p. (Midland Railway)
Carter, E.F. An historical geog. of the railways of the Brit. Isles, 1959: p. 58 (Midland Counties, Birmingham and Derby Junction, and North Midland Railway amalgamated to form Midland Railway, 5-10-1844)
Banbury, Paul. The Leicester & Swannington Railway in a nutshell, 2014: cover (Leicester & Swannington Railway) page 24 (sold to the Midland Railway in 1846)
Information from 678 converted Dec. 19, 2014 (Chartered in 1844)
From Hereford to Three Cocks Junction, ©2021: t.p. (The Hereford, Hay and Brecon Railway) p. 5 (the HH&BR) p. 27 (the Midland Railway (Additional Powers) Act of 16th July, 1885, enabled the MR to purchase the HH&BR, and vesting took place in the following year, 1886; after a not altogether happy career of some 27 years, the HH&BR company was dissolved)