The London, Midland and Scottish Railway was a British railway company. It was formed on 1 January 1923 under the Railways Act 1921, which required the grouping of over 120 separate railways into four
Crest of the LMS on a railway carriage
LMS crest, carved into the stonework at Leeds station
LMS monogram at Llandudno Station
An LMS sleeping car in the standard maroon livery
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The Midland Railway was a railway company in the United Kingdom from 1844. The Midland was one of the largest railway companies in Britain in the early 20th century, and the largest employer in Derby,
London, Midland and Scottish Railway
…required the grouping of over 120 separate railways into four. The companies merged into the LMS included the London and North Western Railway, the Midland Railway, the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (which had previously merged with the London and North Western Railway on 1 January 1922), several Scottish railway…
The Midland Grand Hotel at St Pancras station, the London terminus of the Midland Railway in June 2012
Midland Railway boundary marker at Sutton Bonington, Nottinghamshire, July 2019
1840 print of Curzon Street railway station in Birmingham
An illustration of King's Cross station from 1852, shortly before its use by the Midland Railway