The erecting shop at the London & North Western Railway Crewe Works, c. 1890
Operated
1840-present
Location
Crewe, Cheshire
Coordinates
53°06′N2°28′W / 53.10°N 2.46°W / 53.10; -2.46
Industry
Railways Rolling stock manufacture
Products
Steam locomotives
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. In the 1980s much of the engineering works were closed. Most of the site has been redeveloped, but the remaining parts are owned and operated by Alstom.
During the late 19th century, the London and North Western Railway used Crewe Works to produce many famous locomotives such as the Webb 2-4-0 Jumbo class and the compounds, the Whale Experiment and Precursor classes, and the Bowen-Cooke Claughtons. In particular, Whale's 1912 superheated G1 Class 0-8-0 developed from a locomotive introduced by Webb in 1892, lasted, in many cases until 1964, near the end of steam in 1968.
After grouping, the works were taken over by London, Midland and Scottish Railway which was the successor to the LNWR. It was during this period that the works reached its zenith in size and output. Creating notable steam engines such as Sir William Stanier's locomotives as well as the 'Jubilee' and Class 5 4-6-0s, the 'Princess Royal' and the 'Princess Coronation' 4-6-2s.
The works continued to produce engines under British Railways such as the Britannia 4-6-2s and the Franco-Crosti boilered Class 9 freight locomotives. In the 1980s, a large part of the works was sold for redevelopment. Due to the scale of the works, it had its own internal narrow gauge tramway, the Crewe Works Railway, which was used from 1862 until 1932.
CreweWorks is a British railway engineering facility located in the town of Crewe, Cheshire. The works, which was originally opened by the Grand Junction...
total population of 76,437 in 2021. Crewe is perhaps best known as a large railway junction and home to CreweWorks; for many years, it was a major railway...
094; -2.435 The CreweWorks Railway was a minimum-gauge internal tramway system serving CreweWorks, the main locomotive construction works of the London...
Railway (LNWR) Locomotive Department was headquartered at Crewe from 1862. The CreweWorks had been built in 1840–43 by the Grand Junction Railway (GJR)...
when the locomotive was withdrawn. After successive spells at CreweWorks, Nuneaton, Crewe again (for cosmetic overhaul), Saltley depot and the Birmingham...
number built was 251, production being shared between Swindon (53) and CreweWorks (198). The last of the class, 92220 Evening Star, was the final steam...
InterCity 225 and the Class 89; the type was manufactured by BREL at CreweWorks between 1987 and 1990. The Class 90 was introduced to service during...
depot is situated to the north-west of Crewe railway station on the Crewe-Chester railway line, opposite CreweWorks. Road access is from Wistaston Road...
the Swindon-built, and D1043 of the Crewe-built locomotives. Exceptions were the first four locomotives built at Crewe, D1035–D1038, which were delivered...
fire and both were scrapped at British Rail CreweWorks. The remains of E3009 were also cut up at CreweWorks, the locomotive having been wrecked in the...
of 512 Class 47s were built at Brush's Falcon Works in Loughborough and at British Railways' CreweWorks between 1962 and 1968, which made them the most...
Crewe Heritage Centre is a railway museum located in Crewe, England. Managed by the Crewe Heritage Trust, the museum is located between the railway station...
scrapped off-site. Four Jubilees have been preserved, two each built by CreweWorks and by North British. 45593 and 45596 were purchased directly from BR...
locomotive designed by William Stanier. Twelve examples were built at CreweWorks, between 1933 and 1935, for use on the West Coast Main Line. Two are...
Sulzer Type 4 are diesel locomotives built by British Railways' Derby and CreweWorks between 1960 and 1962. Along with the similar Class 44 and 46 locomotives...
after withdrawal and after cosmetic restoration into LMS crimson lake at CreweWorks, although this was the original livery received, the locomotive did not...
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...
damaging the locomotive. It was declared a write-off and was scrapped at CreweWorks in November 1964. Some 331 locomotives were built for the London Midland...
built in September 1938 by the LMS CreweWorks and operated until February 1964. 6229 was built in 1938 at Crewe as the tenth member of its class and...
constructed, which was christened the name Duke of Gloucester. Constructed at CreweWorks in 1954, the Duke, as it is popularly known, was a replacement for the...
locomotive classes being constructed. Three batches were constructed at CreweWorks, before the publication of the 1955 Modernisation Plan. The Britannia...
Only one was built, in 1986, by British Rail Engineering Limited's CreweWorks. It was used on test-trains on both the West Coast and East Coast Main...
built in 1938 for the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) at CreweWorks to a design by William Stanier. It is a 4-6-2 Pacific locomotive built...
October 1933 and March 1934. Although all built at CreweWorks, they were designed at Horwich Works and were developed from the Horwich Mogul, the LMS...
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