Trains at: Crewe, WCML, 01/07/23
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- A decent enough visit to Crewe on the West Coast Mainline where we see plenty of services from London Northwestern Railway, Avanti West Coast, Northern, East Midlands Railway and Transport for Wales.
The station was opened in 1837 by the Grand Junction Railway. The whole idea of this station was to connect the four largest cities in England by joining the Liverpool and Manchester Railway to the projected London and Birmingham Railway.
There were massive plans for the railway and the station when it first opened. As soon as the station was built there were plans to build at the time a branch line that would head to Chester. The line now being a pretty busy route for passenger traffic. Oddly enough the company created to build this route was called and Chester and Crewe Railway. But once the line had been completed they were merged with the Grand Junction Railway in 1840.
Because at the time the steam engines were only small it meant that an engine shed was built was built that was used to stable banking engines that would be used to push trains up a small incline that today would be no match at all.
Less than a year later plans were created for a trunk route to be built linking Crewe to Holyhead which also gave great access to Ireland which in turn started to cement itself as an important junction station in the UK.
The next line to meet was the line from Manchester. There were plans to have the line run straight from Manchester to Birmingham but when construction was underway it was deemed that it would be uneconomical because of the length of the line that they wanted to create. So it was decided that they would connect their line to the GJR at Crewe.
The town started to grow in size when the GJR moved their depot from Edge Hill in Liverpool to the North of the station. It was done in order to house the workforce.
In 1846 the GJR and the London and Birmingham Railway merged together to form at the time the largest company in the world which is the London & Northwestern Railway.
When the company came to be they started the largest amount of track laying seen in the country. They extended lines and built new ones heading to: Holyhead, Lancaster and Carlisle, Leeds, Shrewsbury, Stoke-on-Trent and the South of Wales.
With all the lines converging on the West Coast Mainline at Crewe it meant that more traffic was coming through the station roughly 1000 trains during any 24 hour period which mostly consisted of freight there were plans brought up which would take the trains under the station.
By 1903 the station was given a make over to allow stopping freight traffic to unload for road vehicles which meant that 9 through platforms were constructed each were a 1/4 mile in length. The total cost of the improvement at the time was £1,000,000 which in today's money is the equivalent to £97,080,000. I'll take a portion of that quite happily.
When the LMS was created Crewe continued to grow in size, locomotives were still being built on a daily basis and the signalling was given a complete overhaul. The two former signal boxes were instead made into concrete fortresses to withstand air raids. But aside from that nothing else really took place in the 50 years LMS were running around.
It wasn't until British Railways was formed that further changes were taking place around the station. Most notably was when steam was starting to be raise out and replaced with diesel and electric locomotives and multiple units which meant that the works were starting to close down because of lack of work and the fact that smaller depots were starting to pop up across the country that would task care of the trains.
Although as we all know Crewe works survived to an extent for the heritage centre and the actual works itself for restoring steam engines.
Much more work was taken out from then to the present day to incorporate the electrification of the WCML, bigger trains, better facilities to make it the station we all know and love today.
My next station is Preston.
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390 123! Was just on that train last month. Visiting the UK from Texas and was excited to see many of the sights and trains featured on this channel. Really enjoyed the WCML. Wish we had rail like that in the USA.
Big fan of yours Tornado thanks for all the great videos.
Hello there! I'm really glad to hear that you had an enjoyable time over here. I hope the weather was kind to you during your stay? I'm really flattered to hear that you are big fan of the content that I produce, many thanks!
I got 390016 to Edinburgh that morning to start my all line rover. It was 20 minutes late.
I hope you had a great day
Love a bit of Crewe action, only been once but it was worth it. Thanks for the traction and foliage coverage
Crewe is a good station to go to but it needs a lot of work done to it
nice video
Thanks very much
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Hi Tornado922. Great film at Crewe. Looking forward to the next film at Preston. Kind regards, Chris.
Thanks very much Chris
Xcellent
Thank you kindly
One of those TfW 175s is sitting in my local depot (Ilford TMD) at the moment! I'm guessing it's either been stored or waiting to be towed away for scrapping. One of the ex-GA Renatus 321s is there at the moment as well!
most likely just storage as theyre officially off lease now, i wouldnt think they would scrap them at 20 years old when several operators need more rolling stock
Let's go
Brilliant video, I really enjoyed it. :)
Thanks very much
Awesome video buddy from Alan in Lowestoft buddy 👍 😊
Thanks very much bud!
An enjoyable viewing, pity no freight, but you can't always have everything. Station looks like it is in need of an upgrade or complete modernisation. Many thanks.
Thanks very much, it would be great if there was a viewing platform to see the freight on the diversion line going past the station. This station has been in dire need of some work doing to it for several years now
Cool
Thanks
Bro I was at Manchester Piccadilly on the same day as you uploaded it and I went to Crewe yesterday ON THE SAME PLATFORM 😂 it feels like your following me ❤
Definite stalker vibes there haha
Nice railway video mate
Thanks very much!
I’m on my way to Crewe right now!
I hope you had a great time!
I saw 350 104 yesterday in Eurovision livery and 390 119 the pride Pendolino both at Wolverhampton .
You caught a bit of everything
Do you like these towns?
Norwich, King's Lynn, Beccles, Bury St Edmunds, Clacton-On-Sea, Walton-On-The-Naze, Ely, Cambridge and Peterborough
They are alright, why do you ask?
@@Tornado922 they're my favourite towns
Classic station
It most certainly is!
I was there on that day, did you not see the TPE 68s?
No I didn't see them
U should make it "The Tornado Train news"
I might just do that!
If you think that Crewe is bad for weedery (a contraction of weeds and shrubbery) have a look at Carlisle!
I've seen some films from Carlisle lately and it looks absolutely awful!
One thing if the train is going to London it’s going up if not it’s going down! Not sure whose idea that was or is but hey
It is rather odd
Link to report mentioning this given to you now
I mean Crewe itself is bustling, have you ever checked out the Crewe heritage centre? I find it a very good place to spot from and offers some preserved heritage units. (sure you don’t get EMR and some LNWR services)
Shame luck wasn’t on your side in terms of traffic unless you’d probably know your Gen then you’d have a better day out. (PS. XC Diverting through Crewe on 28th august). But nice vid nonetheless.
I've never been to the Heritage Centre as of yet but it somewhere I do want to go to. If I am free on the 28th I might make another trip here to catch those diverts
It's a shame the wind made it difficult to hear you
Unfornutely the wind was against me all day
Can you do Holmes chapel please?
I will see what I can do
You forgot eastmidlands railway 😅
They aren't all that important ;)
i don't know if i asked this before, but how do you get the orgin and destination of all these trains without crossing platforms? or better yet, the passing trains?
I use RealtimeTrains for my information
@@Tornado922 the one from dorada app software, matt cheetham or railboard? idk since there’s quite a few on the app store
@@cbawitlife it's a website, here's a link for you www.realtimetrains.co.uk/
@@Tornado922 thank you my brudda
Can you Go to Blackpool Noth please
I will see what I can do
I have been rediscovering the Yarmouth-Beccles line and the Yarmouth-Lowestoft line I will send you a link to the map in Google my maps later on
ok
Have you seen the new LNR class 730s and if you have what do you think about them
I've only seen them parked up in the sidings but they do look very smart
@@Tornado922 okay then well I hope you get to see them when you're train spotting. I've only seen 1 and that was when I was at Stafford
Looks very empty
Much like any station it will have periods where nothing happens
Ok Faberooney90 is doing a transport community out of context video I think you need to put your out of context stuff on there since in between trains you’re always out of context
here is the link: www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1SvcGkDuffvzR5XIPPout17BI9pZD8-4&usp=sharing