The Midland Railway, Butterley is a complex of railway museum exhibits in Derbyshire, within the Midland Railway Centre. It lies on the Pye Bridge to Ambergate line of the old Midland Railway. At the centre is the Golden Valley Railway a narrow-gauge line built on the trackbed of an ironworks railway.
The line runs for 3.5 miles.
External link
The Centre website (http://www.midlandrailwaycentre.co.uk/screen1024x768.html)
The working signal boxes at the centre are maintained and operated by members of the MidlandRailway Signalman's Association but, because they are operating boxes, they are not open to the general public.
However, his railway career prospered and he was eventually appointed General Manager of the MidlandRailway in October 1853.
Continuing towards the station you pass the large MidlandRailway Signal Box which was rescued from Kettering on the former MidlandRailway main line to London.