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Crewe railway station serves the railway town of Crewe, in Cheshire, England. It opened in 1837 and is one of the most historically significant railway stations in the world. [3] [4] Crewe station is a major junction on the West Coast Main Line and serves as a rail gateway for North West England.
1843: Crewe Railway Works opens. [115] 1843: Foundation of the Chetham Society. [116] 1845: Crewe Railway Works completes its first locomotive, Columbine. [115] 24 May 1847: Five people are killed in the Dee bridge disaster when a girder of the railway bridge crossing the River Dee fractures. [117] 1848: Chester railway station opens. [118]
Until the Grand Junction Railway established a railway station in 1837, Crewe was a "tiny township with a few farms". [2] There are only two listed buildings dating from before the arrival of the railway: a much altered farmhouse that probably originated in the 16th century [3] and a timber-framed farmhouse dating from the late 17th century. [4]
The signalling at Crewe is now controlled by a power signal box a short distance to the north west of the Station. This controls all lines at Crewe North Junction and Crewe South Junction and entry into the station. This signalling centre was only intended as a 'temporary measure' from 1985 for around three years. It still controls Crewe today.
Basford Hall Yard is a railway marshalling yard near the town of Crewe, Cheshire, England.The yard, which is 0.93 miles (1.5 km) south of Crewe railway station, was opened in 1901 by the London and North Western Railway (LNWR).
Crewe Works is a British railway engineering facility located in the town of Crewe, Cheshire. The works, which was originally opened by the Grand Junction Railway in March 1843, employed around 7,000 to 8,000 workers at its peak.
The Crewe and Shrewsbury Railway was a railway company which was previously owned by the London and North Western Railway (LNWR), built to connect Crewe with the Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway which was jointly owned with GWR. Authorised in 1853, planning difficulties accessing the GWR station at Shrewsbury delayed opening
The bridge carried the 18-inch, single-line tramway down its centre. The spider bridge terminated at the station in a "T" junction with a footbridge spanning all passenger platforms at the north end of the station. The bridge from the works survived as a footbridge until 1939, but was apparently little used by locomotives after 1920.