Rush Hour Trains at: Crewe, WCML, 04/08/23
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- A very enjoyable evening session at Crewe on the West Coast Mainline where we see plenty of services from London Northwestern Railway, Avanti West Coast, Cross Country, Northern, Transport for Wales and freight from Colas Rail, DRS and Royal Mail.
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 rush hour film will be from Cologne in Germany.
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Hi Tornado922. Great rush hour film at Crewe. I loved hearing you when you couldn't say 350267 at 14:14! 🤣 Looking forward to the next rush hour film at Cologne. Kind regards, Chris.
Thanks very much Chris :)
Great video at Crewe
Thanks very much
Excellent video, love watching these every Sunday.
Thank you kindly
I've got to say TfW are one of the funniest operators with putting trains on routes, especially during Rush Hour. 😂
Great Video as always 👍
Thanks very much, they have a knack for doing the weird and the wonderful it would seem
As ever another fantastic video. Thanks for your brilliant effort you put into making your videos it's always appreciated. As ever looking forward to seeing more. Regards to the family
Thank you ever so much
Pendolino Fest & Colas 70 Fest Crewe Day. Yeah, Crewe can be one of those hit and miss stations for mixed variety of passenger and freight. Another epic film to watch, fully enjoyed it :-)
Thanks very much! This is one of the man reasons why I enjoy coming here as you never really know what you're going to get turning up throughout the course of your stay
hi cool video i was last week on vacantion in U.K From Netherlands unfortnetley dint spot almost no cargo trains ad york station when i wend there for visit york railway museum on 30-01 hope to be back soon for a second round for freight train spoting
Another fantastic milestone. 13K subscribers, well done. Keep up the amazing work buddy.
Thank you ever so much for your continued support!
I was at the crewe heritage center wonder if this was the same day
Could have been
Fantastic railway video as always
Thanks very much!
Another great vlog
Thanks very much
Amazing vid like always keep it up (I'm your number 1 fan =D)
Thank you kindly and I greatly appreciate it :)
Great video mate! Crewe is always a good station to visit especially seeing 390119 or 390121 bypassing and a TFW 197 but at least you had a Royal Mail service pass as a bonus 😊
Thanks very much, I had a great time here
Manchester Piccadilly to Cardiff Working two 153s is wild!!!!!
I will never understand why they find that to be acceptable
@@Tornado922 at least the 197s are working the Manchester to Cardiff now
Amazing video
Thanks very much
Apologies to headphone users as well Jarred Jesus that was bad poor Ian not knowing about that flange problem with his bae Pendolino
Headphone users will be suing me soon haha
Great video at Crewe Jared 👍
Thanks very much!
I visited Crewe on the 21st, and LSL were certainly making some noise! We had 40013 go off to Chester, 37688 and 46100 Royal Scot moving around as well as 47593 doing something too! Also popped up to Chester that day and caught some of their 507s and 508s as well as 777002.
You certainly did very well on that day!
@@Tornado922 I did indeed! If You're ever at Crewe again when I'm there I'll be sure to say hello!
Glad you mentioned TfW running Class 153 and 150 units (2 cars only) from Manchester to South and South West Wales services. I keep falling foul of these "services" at Shrewsbury; they are packed to the gills, uncomfortable and totally unsuitable for such journeys being both short (2 cars only) and being suburban units. As for the age of these units! TfW must be breaking railway performance rules by running such units on long distance runs. I have even seen a single 153 on a Manchester to Cardiff service on a number of occasions. And whilst this is going on, there are still loads of new TfW new units languishing at Donnington gathering dust. I despair!
Additionally to what I said above, TfW also keep running 2 car 150s on Anglo-Welsh services to Birmingham International via Shrewsbury and Telford. These "services" are very often used by passengers wanting to get to Birmingham Airport. Mix them with people getting on at Telford and Wolverhampton and the journey is always a nightmare (if you can even get on the thing in the first place). People used to moan about Northern but TfW are getting away with murder!
its disgusting how TFW and before them Arriva treat their paying passengers,stuff em in like sardines they dont give a toss and DO NOT listen...just like the welsh first minister keep talking coz were not listening and dont care
You're not wrong I've seen 2 153s on a Cardiff to Holyhead vice 67 mark 4 set plus they withdrawn the 2 car 175s too soon as well
TfW 😞😠🤬
66091 is on loan to DRS for RHTT duties and it’s almost RHTT time again
And we're back at Crewe, certainly was better than before!
Yeah the 2 and 3 cars on long routes have been a joke for god knows how long even back in ATW Days. But seeing as TFW have taken on more mk4 sets there may be more diagrams for these in the future (Especially with the Ex GC Sets) (If they properly run that is)
Crewe is one of those stations that can be incredibly hit and miss, fortunately I was here on a good day
Large station. Good video and looking forward to the German video
U got first in comments 💀
@@charlottelarimore9261And so?
22:11 Great to see both carriages of the original 155303 back together again, that never happens! The original 155s were split so the 153s were 153301 to 153335 and 153351 to 153385 with one carriage of each set having 50 added to it’s original number
It was a great idea to split a DMU into a new unit
@@Tornado922 yes it was
R.E. the LM in P6, I belive they have trouble with the chester shuttle emptying off and people getting too close to the edge of P6, so they stick the shuttle on 12 to allow the LM to arrive without any issues!
That would certainly explain it!
Great video as always jarred! I have a question: what is the best station to go to on the ECML? Loving the content keep up the amazing work
Thanks very much, I guess it all depends on what you want to see. I would say that Peterborough is a tremendous station to go to for variety
Hey Jared could you visit Birmingham new street and Wolverhampton please 🙏
I will get these done later in the year for you
Poor people using that TfW service 😲😠
What was a Cross Country 221 doing at Crewe? That's rare isn't it?
I think, during the rush hour period, Cross Country have a service from Manchester that goes via Wilmslow and Crewe instead of going via Macclesfield and Stoke-on-Trent towards Stafford. That's probably why a Cross Country service was seen in this film.
Mk4s Don't work half the time 😅
I've noticed this haha
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