Posters and Handbills

This is a magnified view of the postcard on the Stationmasters page. You can clearly make out the sweet dispensing machines and what looks like a set of scales. The posters advertised a range of mainline Midland Railway services including those to London, the West of England, |Scotland and Northern Ireland. Below are blown up versions from the Roy Burrows collection at the Derby Silk Museum courtesy of Dave Harris.

A Midland Railway handbill from the 1870s advertising

an excursion to London. The overnight train left
Woodlesford at 12.40am and arrived in London at
about 7.30am.

Woodlesford

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