Crewe Works
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Crewe Works is a railway engineering facility located in the town of Crewe, in Cheshire, England. It was opened originally by the Grand Junction Railway in March 1843 and employed 7-8,000 workers at i
The erecting shop at the LNWR's Crewe Works, c. 1890
Rebuilt Royal Scot Class No. 46123 Royal Irish Fusilers receiving attention at Crewe Works with other locomotives
Stanier 8F 2-8-0 48133 on the Crewe Works internal railway in 1948
Bowen-Cooke Class G2a 0-8-0 No. 48932, built at Crewe in 1902 as a Webb Class B four-cylinder loco, was later rebuilt to two-cylinder status. Buxton shed August 1960.
LNWR Whale Precursor Class
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The London and North Western Railway "Precursor" Class was a type of 4-4-0 steam locomotive designed by the company's Chief Mechanical Engineer, George Whale. Introduced in 1904, it should not be conf
No. 513, Precursor in photographic grey livery
Precursor Class no. 1117 Vandal at Shrewsbury engine shed, soon after emerging from Crewe Works in November 1904 (from an old postcard).