An afternoon in Crewe

A few photos from yesterday taken in Crewe Heritage centre and later on one of the steam special for that day. Crewe station is not the best place to wait around for three hours btw! we met one or two strange people there


6100 Royal Scot
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Diesel meets Electric
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9F Valve gear
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One of the strange people we met yesterday

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An enjoyable day all the same. despite the weather. I think the Heritage Centre could best be described as a work in progress, gone are the days when you could walk round the engine shed at Carnforth's Steamtown. Anyway here's a few of mine, nothing very inspirational, at least the Siggy 10-20 got a long overdue outing:

Heritage

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The old and the abandoned

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Old boiler

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Exeter West Signal box at Crewe!!

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Not to be moved

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Black Prince

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Royal Scot

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and the Duke finally arrives at Crewe.......

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John

Looks a great place to amble round with a camera great sets of shots.

Some keepers in there Cliff. While it's heartening to see those heritage assets that are in good nick, it's sobering to see what is rusting away, neglected, alongside...

Your photos have made my mind up - I must visit the Crewe Heritage Centre. Is Royal Scot about to return to mainline duty soon?
David.
PS has anyone been to Steam at Swindon, the Great Western Museum in the former railway works. Its a fantastic place to visit for anyone interested in railway history.
Dean Goods
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Brunel
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Evening Star
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Hope you don't mind me gatecrashing your Crewe thread but these from Swindon might interest you.
David

You're not kidding there. And not just the station.

I hadn't realised there was a steam special this weekend. I was out taking some photos of the last one I knew about, but the catenary on the WCML gets in the way unfortunately.

Not too sure when she is going to be ready for main line service again David as she still has quite a few bits missing!. The Heritage centre are having steam evenings this summerlink which looks good.

Nice images David and feel free to post away.