Citations:Midland

US region

 * 2006, William Labov, Sharon Ash, Charles Boberg, The Atlas of North American English: Phonetics, Phonology, and Sound (ISBN 3110167468):
 * This was the last dialect defined in Chapter 11 (Map 11.10); a fairly complex definition was required to separate the West from Canada, the North, the North Central region, the Midland, and the South.

UK region? or railway?

 * 1880 August 21, The Midland Railway Company, in The Railway News (volume 34, page 267):
 * We congratulate the public of the Midland of England on the fact that, whatever may be the changes, and however regretable, that take place among men, the policy of the Midland Railway Company continues to be ably administered and to be always in the path of progress.