Posters and Handbills

This is a magnified view of the postcard on the Stationmasters page. You can clearly make out slot 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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