As part of the Railway 200 celebrations, the Midland Railway Society in conjunction Derby Museums Museum of Making in the Silk Mill, Derby. Each day over the weekend we will be holding an Open Day at the Midland Railway Study Centre, the Museums’s famed model railway will be operating with their volunteers on hand and there will be a theme for each event with presentations and exhibits.
The two weekends are:
5/6 July with the theme of “How the Railway Came to Derby”
13/14 September which will be “Railway People — Your Ancestors or Not”
The Midland Railway Study Centre will open its doors to visitors throughout the time the Museum of Making is open on these dates. There will be displays of ephemera, photographs and documents from our collections relevant to each theme. Midland Railway Society members will be on hand to welcome visitors and talk about the material on display, the wider theme and railways in general.
There will be stalls and stands with local heritage railway partners and other relevant organisations to talk about their activities and offer their books etc. for sale. The presentation area will display a rolling display on the weekend’s theme and twice each day (11:00 and 14:00) we will deliver a live illustrated talk on the event theme lasting 45min to an hour.
In the Museum’s Railways Revealed gallery the famed 7mm model railway that recreates the Midland Railway in the Peak District of the Edwardian era will be running throughout, with the volunteers who work on it there to talk about and demonstrate their modelling skills.