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A really amazing pinch of time. 👏👏👏

This is gold ❤

Looks so familiar, although it's a couple of years before I was regularly in and out of that station when I went to Dane Bank. I remember the compartmented trains. I walked up and down Nantwich road every weekday. Went out with Dave who worked at the cycle shop. Also spent loads of time in the original Custom Amp shop much further down on the left. Happy days.

It looks better in 1974 than 2024

I saw my step Niece on there!

Note the disabled 3-wheel car at 10:01.and again at 10m 20secs, and finally at the end of the sequence at 12m 42 secs...I remember them being a familiar sight in the 70s..

I noted the Pullman around 3m 05 seconds in, and it looks as though it had come off the Manchester lines.The station clock at one point said 1545, so they may have spent quite some time at Crewe, as the Pullman would not pass until around 1720, 1642 from Manchester, via Styal, calling at Wilmslow only. The Crewe station I remember,didn`t really change much until the re-modelling in 1985.

Never forgotten my my first ever visit to Crewe works, open day, Saturday 22nd September 1979, admission child 20p. still got the little blue ticket. such great memory's.

All change at Crewe

Such a shame Crewe railway station has become a shadow of its former self over the years. Being left to go to rot. With a lot of its roof lost,and the rest left damaged and leaking. Run down is an understatement. Definitely lost all its glory since my first ever visit in 1980. Interesting video. Crosville territory,another sad loss too.

Interesting film. I would suggest this is probably earlier then 1974. By 1974 line had been electrified to Glasgow and class 86 locos were replaced by newly built class 87

Manchester Pullman on the afternoon return from Euston on Crewe "middle road" with all grey and white coaches apart from a first class put into the rake. I remember when one of the parlour cars got damaged at Longsight in 74 ! The driver of 86013 making the "binoculars face" with his hands looks like my dads's mate, Alan Roe.

Only been through on the train.

They're closing down the textile mill Across the railroad tracks Foreman says, "These jobs are going, boys And they ain't coming back To your hometown Bruce Springsteen

There's a frame at 4:01 that shows the reflection of the camera operator holding his camera in the window of the passing train. Pause and use the < > keys on a PC or laptop device to move the film back and forth frame by frame.

My goodness. The days when the little, blue Invacars were on the roads.

As a product of 1975, I was about to be born into this town. It is a shame what has been allowed to happen.

Thank you bombardier

Crewe

The towns dead now. Full of Foreigner's pushing prams. Foreigner's living in the Royal Hotel, Crewe Arms Hotel. The Brunswick and where ever else. Turkish barbers, kebab shops, Polish supermarkets. We're done for!!

13:46 I think that’s my old Geography teacher Mr Aston crossing the road in the brown suit and striped tie. He had a striking resemblance to actor Donald Sutherland from the film ‘Don’t Look Now’ (1973).

Somehow a Poundland wasn't able to survive here lol

Every so often the naïve kid calls it Cree-Wee

People who know train station and the hospital👇

Nearly 49 years ago, wow, how time has flown by.

Lived in Crewe for 40years a I loved the old Crewe, nowadays it's really not the same anymore. Sad really God bless Creweski .😢😢❤😂😂

Excellent. I was born in Crewe 1960 and I recall a great deal of this. Thanks for sharing.

The footage was filmed post July 1974 as this was when the Commer Minibus parked outside The Hilary Centre was first registered.

Good to see some stunning super 8 footage, i've started shooting super 8 the last 5 years or so .Stumbled across this tonight, takes me back to a memory of my 1st visit to Crewe Park around this time or later , i went with my dad ( guess 1974 0r 1975 was only 3 so earliest memory ) the Cafe was all Bricks on the floor, and a temporary mobile cafe was set up near by . ( as seen in this footage ) ( their was a fire in 1972 ) ,the boarded up part are remains of cafe so must have been after this footage, but a few years before the 1977 Cafe was built.

july this year walked down flag lane all whats left is flats pubs shops where there used to be work shops and locos standing about only a small part of the works is left to my amazment there are no tracks left on the works site it just looks like a normal industrail estate now

Just as I remember it, although I think 1972. Reason, the Class 50 at the stations had gone by 1974, and the Class 87 is absent- those were introduced in 1973.

4.12 the dude suited and booted on the station steps is the late George Tomlinson (Toby jug) he was the BR plant and machinery manager....

9:59 mins.When the ladies are been brought out of the ambulances,looks like the old Cheshire Constabulary Force Training Centre.Trained there 1985/1987 good memories.

I love the ways men always used to wear shirts and ties everywhere!

What a fantastic video, Brought back many memories, Thanks to all who Contributed. Still hard to Believe It’s all gone😥

Wow this is a amazing video what sprung to my mind about 10 mins in to this video is the population of people to knowadays, and I use to love the colour blue and the yellow on the trains proper back in the day railways its a modernised knowadays but it Doesn't beat back in the 70s 80s and 90s, the good old days have gone but life goes on , godbless you ,, netty Lee

Fascism and Communism both hate democracy and free speech, that's why they both started the 2nd World War.

Superb video. Lots of memories having attended many open days. Just a shame that we don't still make trains here in the UK for our own railway network. Crewe should be the centre of our railway network. It should have been grade II listed protected and kept forever. So sad.

What a delightful film, from a time when the World still had a modicum of sanity about it. I have worked on The Railway for 32 years so the content around the station held a special interest for me. The shot of the Commer vans near the end stirred some memories too, I served my apprenticeship on the Spanners when I left school in 1975 and used to work on those things, interestingly, they had Vacuum brakes, just like some rolling stock.

Can anyone tell who’s music it is please ?

I was put on a placement with B T Challinors "Wistaston Road" Shop (one of about four shops they ran in Crewe,others being in Hightown,Victoria Avenue)shop after starting at Bedford Street Annexe Student Training Centre which I did NOT really enjoy much. Does anyone remember "Derek Carless,Model Model Shop"near there? The B.T Challinor's became Brigford's Estate Agents. Any more Videos of Crewe town centre in the 70s & 80s? also any of Alsager from the same period?

Fabulous film. At the time I lived just up from where the last segment was filmed. I remember all those shops really well,especially the one on the corner of Smallman Rd & Carless & Challinors across from there. The corner of Ruskin Rd has changed a bit. The houses there are residential in the film & appear to still have their large front gardens which is just pavement now.

I was about six then,happy days,when Crewe was a good town.

Great to see. I travelled by train to South Cheshire college, Dane Bank Avenue from 1975 for a couple of years, walked back and forth on many occasions...

I wish Les Ross would reinstate the headcode boxes in his 86 - would look amazing! The only good news is there’s still a great chippy in walking distance of Crewe Stn!

Worked on rail house when they were building it...1968

Wow, I love here and this is what it was like 40-50 years ago. There is such a massive difference

I left in 1979 it looks better than I remember but deserted Crewe is such a little town we shouldn't expect much I suppose I have been back once 20 years ago I'm certainly glad I moved on.

The same day England played Brazil in the World Cup!

A wartburg night (car) for those who have never heard of them appeared in the street scene. The dealerships couldn't even give them away. I felt sorry for those who became unfortunate owners. If you were unlucky enough to be behind one on the move you couldn't escape its own built-in smokescreen from its micymouse 2 stroke engine. Thankfully they are extint now 😁 . Fabulous video. How times have changed in almost 50 years.