Visit on Wednesday 2^nd July to Midland Railway Study Centre at the Derby Museum of Making (‘Silk Mill’), hosted by Dave Harris. Dave will give us a guided tour of the collection, selecting some favourite items. A great opportunity in the year of Rail200.

The Midland Railway Study Centre is the largest publicly accessible collection of primary research material and ephemera relating to the Midland Railway and constituent companies. The collection details the Company's lasting impact on social history and provides and insight into the working lives of the tens of thousands of staff it employed over the years. The Study Centre is also home to the incomparable Roy F Burrows Midland Collection, over 2,500 objects from which can be viewed within the Museum of Making's Assemblage.   

Two groups of 10; first tour at 1500, second at 1545 with view to finishing at 1630.