After Tube 150, there’s an important new rail anniversary coming up this year – 175 years of Derby as a rail manufacturing centre. Famous for the great products of the Midland Railway that pulled the express trains into St Pancras, including the legendary Midland Compounds (above). Derby remains today as the only centre for designing and manufacturing new trains in Britain. Every day Londoners travel on its latest products – the new S-stock on the Metropolitan, Circle and District lines. A rare great British triumph…
