The North Midland and later Midland workshop in 2006
Industry
Locomotive manufacturing
Founded
1840; 184 years ago (1840)
Headquarters
Derby
,
England
The Derby Works comprised a number of British manufacturing facilities designing and building locomotives and rolling stock in Derby, England.[1][page needed] The first of these was a group of three maintenance sheds opened around 1840 behind Derby station. This developed into a manufacturing facility called the Midland Railway Locomotive Works, known locally as "the loco" and in 1873 manufacturing was split into locomotive and rolling stock manufacture, with rolling stock work transferred to a new facility, Derby Carriage & Wagon Works.
From its earliest days, it had carried out research and development in a number of areas, and in 1933 the London, Midland and Scottish Railway opened the LMS Scientific Research Laboratory. Around 1964, this became part of a new British Rail Research Division, based in the purpose-built Railway Technical Centre, which also housed the Department of Mechanical & Electrical Engineering (DM&EE) and later the headquarters of British Rail Engineering Limited.
^Larkin, E.J.; Larkin, J.G. (1988). The Railway Workshops of Great Britain 1823–1986. Macmillan Press.
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