Midland Railway

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10 May 1844

The Midland Railway emerged from the amalgamation of the Birmingham and Derby Junction , the Midland Counties , and the North Midland lines.

Simmons, Jack. The Railway in England and Wales 1830-1914. Leicester University Press, 1978.

Ellis, Hamilton. British Railway History: An Outline from the Accession of William IV to the Nationalisation of Railways 1830-1876. George Allen and Unwin, 1954.

1855

George Hudson , Britain's Railway King, fled the country when the extent of his fraud became known.

Allen, G. Freeman. Railways: Past, Present and Future. Orbis Publishing, 1982.

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1857

Robert Forester Mushet made the first steel rails for railway tracks.

Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.

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