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This is a list of destinations that were served by British Midland International over its time as an airline. [Note 1] [Note 2] On 28 October 2012, all remaining services were merged into British Airways (BA).
The Midland Main Line (MML), sometimes also spelt Midland Mainline, is a major railway line from London to Sheffield in Yorkshire via the East Midlands. It comprises the lines from London's St Pancras station via Leicester, Derby/Nottingham and Chesterfield. Express passenger services on the line are operated by East Midlands Railway (EMR).
British Midland operated its final Viscount flight on 20 February 1988, 21 years after the airline had first operated the type. [5] That year, British Midland also became the first to operate the British Aerospace (BAe) ATP for which it had been the launch customer. The BAe ATP was the airline's last turboprop type.
The Midland at last had its route into Manchester from London. Over the years it made some improvements. The route from Romiley through Hyde entailed a long detour, so in 1875 a new more direct line was opened through Reddish. In 1865 the Midland had become a partner of the Cheshire Lines Committee which opened Manchester Central railway ...
The London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS [a]) was a British railway company. It was formed on 1 January 1923 under the Railways Act 1921 , [ 1 ] which required the grouping of over 120 separate railways into four.
The Midland Railway (MR) was a railway company in the United Kingdom from 1844. [2] The Midland was one of the largest railway companies in Britain in the early 20th century, and the largest employer in Derby, where it had its headquarters.
The line from London to the Channel Tunnel is the only line designated 'high speed', although the other main routes also operate limited-stop express services. The bulk of the secondary network is concentrated in London and the surrounding East and South East regions; an area marketed by National Rail as London and the South East .
The GWR preferred to develop the route via Oxford and Basingstoke which was double track throughout, and already engineered as a trunk line. At Cheltenham, the GWR continued to run the M&SWJR route trains to the Midland (now LMS) station. [20] However the GWR restored the Swindon Town to Swindon main line station link, from 22 October 1923.