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Derby Carriage and Wagon Works was built by the Midland Railway. They built it in Derby, England

The building began at Derby Works in 1840. This was when the North Midland Railway, the Midland Counties Railway and the Birmingham and Derby Railway made engine sheds for their Tri Junct Station. These three merged in 1844 to form the Midland Railway. Then, its first Locomotive and Carriage Superintendent Matthew Kirtley decided to organise their works and persuaded that the railway should build their own rolling stock instead of than buying it.

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  • Derby MMB 02 Litchurch Lane Works

    Litchurch Lane works in 2011. Visible is a US Standard Light Rail Vehicle that was originally proposed to be used on the Manchester Metrolink network

  • IMechE dinner 1898 Derby

    Annual dinner of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers held in the carriage works of the Midland Railway at Derby in 1898. Samuel Johnson, the railway's Chief Mechanical Engineer was the institution president.

  • Derby Lightweight 79018 at Bewdley

    Preserved Derby Lightweight at Bewdley

  • LEV1 at Weybourne Station

    The prototype railbus LEV1

  • 170518 at Peterborough

    Class 170 Turbostar at Peterborough

  • Gautrain-in-depot

    Gautrain EMU in South Africa

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