Chance to buy rail logo history

Midland Mainline adopted this logo last year

A piece of railway history is being auctioned off by the train operator Midland Mainline (MML).

The company is selling its final "Bambi" for charity. The leaping stag logo was used until last year.

The firm runs services from London St Pancras to Bedfordshire, Northants, the East Midlands and Sheffield.

Only four of the huge Bambi signs were made to hang at stations. The final one is up for grabs on an internet auction site with the money going to charity.

It will be donated to the cancer charity LOROS - The Leicestershire and Rutland Hospice.

Midland Mainline has abandoned its old colours and 'Bambi' logo

The sign is so large that the buyer will have to collect it from the company headquarters in Derby.

Anna Statham, from MML, said the previous signs have been very popular with rail buffs, and this is the last one that will ever go on sale.

She said: "We weren't sure if there'd be any demand at all but the first three have been sold as soon as we put them on e-bay so obviously there's people out there looking for this kind of thing."

Bids for the sign to be auctioned opened at £50 and will close on 8 April.

The deer is no longer used by the company with its trains and stations now using different colours with a plainer logo.

MML runs Sheffield, Chesterfield, Derby, Leicester, Market Harborough, Kettering and Wellingborough stations plus travel centres at Nottingham and St Pancras.