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Anonymous: “M.R. EXPRESS BRADFORD TO LONDON.” Photographic plate XIV/1 facing page 120 in Ernest Protheroe, Every boy's book of railways and steamships, London: Religious Tract Society, 1911.

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THE MIDLAND RAILWAY
“Midland” was the true name of this Company, for it was formed by a combination of several lines that joined Leeds to Rugby, with branches to Nottingham and Birmingham. The Company speedily got tired of handing its traffic over to others at Rugby for conveyance to London or the coast. In the year 1853, it was proposed to amalgamate the L. & N.W., the Great Western, and the Midland, but Parliament refused to assent to the scheme. Resolutely the Midland began to push out towards the coast by means of extensions and leasing other lines; it got into Bristol as early as 1846, but not into London until 1857, and then only by favour of the Great Northern. In 1868, however, the Midland ran into the capital on its own metals to St. Pancras; in 1875 it entered Liverpool, and in 1879 it commenced to run expresses from Newcastle-on-Tyne to Bristol. Nowadays the Midland is one of the most ubiquitous of our lines, as indicated by only a
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PLATE XIV.
1. M.R. EXPRESS, BRADFORD TO LONDON. 2. ERECTING SHOP, DERBY WORKS.
A GARLAND OF IRON RIBBONS 121
few of the outermost points of its many ramifications, viz., London, Bristol, Swansea, Manchester, Carlisle, Lincoln, and Peterborough on its own lines; and by joint or leased lines to places as far apart as Liverpool and Lowestoft. When the section known as the Syston and Peterborough line was built, the surveyors met with the most determined opposition from the Earl of Harborough, who objected to railways in general, and that one in particular. The surveying party of seven dared not venture on to the nobleman’s estate and endeavoured to carry out their operations from the canal towing-path adjoining it. The earl summoned the chief canal officials to the spot and obtained from them a document which gave the nobleman authority to remove trespassers, but at the moment the surveyors were the stronger party. The earl and the canal officials went off to secure reinforcements, but while they were

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