Crewe Works in the 80's remembered
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 มี.ค. 2018
- Following on from the video slideshow I did last year displaying Stoke 5D Shed photos taken by my friend Bob Hart, he recently asked me to do another video showing his collection of photos he took at Crewe Works while working as a driver there. These are all of diesels of course but show the works in one of it's busiest periods since steam ended.
The end of the line for so many loco’s. Train spotting for me would never be the same again when we lost all the loco hauled trains I loved to see all over the UK late 70’s early 80’s.
I used to love going to the Crewe Works Open Days. Great photos. Thank you.
Brings back memories of the good old days
Thank you for sharing your photos
Great footage of better times .
I do my trainspotting in hungary and Romania seen the class 86's this week and class 92's last week at constanta doing what they are meant to do fantastic
i had the pleasure to visit crewe works twice in the 1980s once in 1984 and 1986 i was only 12 the 1st time i went with my late father but they was the best exiting days ever! and a great video 🥰😘🤩
Great photos of the works, the locos and the railway at the time. Thanks for posting. But that music! 🥺
Great video, if also sad ! Those were the days ... love these old DE- & Hydraulics of the BR. Best regards from south Germany
Great.
Sad seeing 86 211 after recovery from Colwich. Its like it was only yesterday.....
Superb Video and the music as well.
Love the music accompanying the video.
What a great shots and music. Thank you!
left a tear in my eye,
Excellent video I like the song yesterday on the fate of the 40s Great choice.
Well hello young engine
Some great pics, interesting to see.
Nice upload and good choice of music too ,got hundreds of photo's like this at Crewe ,Derby, and Donny
You on Withdrawn Locos forum? You’d be most welcome, be great to see photos
Class 37s in the video:
Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away
Now it looks as though they're here to stay
Oh, I believe in yesterday
Suddenly, I'm not half the loco I used to be
There's a shadow hanging over me
Oh, yesterday came suddenly
CGI Thomas be like
Great photos from an era I feel privileged to have experienced. Just a quick note though. At the beginning there is a picture of the collision damaged and withdrawn 47282 dated 01/84, the loco didn't have it's collision until 04/86 and was moved to Crewe later in the year. Shortly after there is a picture of 47529 which ran light to Crewe for withdrawl as surplus in 02/87 and was completely stripped (even the hand rails were removed) and loco was cut-up by 04/87. I would suggest both pictures where taken in that time frame.
Thanks a lot for that information.
Great video love it thank's
This music is like they used to play in lifts or supermarkets in the 70’s 👍🏻
The Flag lane chimney 😁
Some of the dates must be slightly wrong, the green 47s were painted in 1985 (for GWR150) and 47529 was on the scrap line in early 1987…
Fantastic video of days gone by😥, mesmerising stuff👌
Fabulous music( Nelson Riddle or Marian McPartkand?). I missed doing Crewe. The big 16 wheelers taking it here:(
awesome
Very very good indeed.
Nightshift was the best, you could get your head down in the front cabin,,, if you could find a loco that was vacant. 😙😀
Hmm. Maybe it's this sort of attitude why we have Zero places like Crewe works anymore
@@gazbrucia1654The same mentality was prevalent at Rolls Royce in Crewe during the 70s and 80s too. That didn't end well either.
Great Crewe days,
Isn’t this where Henry was sent after the Flying Kipper crash?
“Pah, what filthy things! This is your comeuppance for all those nasty things you spoke about us!” said Henry, who was on a visit to the very place he’d been rebuilt into a Stanier 5MT.
Some one asked the question is Eagle Bridge still there the short answer is no, but the eagles have survived one is on the Heritage Centre positioned on the corner of North Signal box.
Emotional
I was there for 6 or 7 months from Jan 84 after Shildon closed. It was like a jolly boys outing,, maybe about 10 of us in 'Rodgers' guest house, mostly 21 year old's. Those were the days!
Aw Gee sus ! That collision damage and death music is just far too spooky !
luckily 40012's fate was to be preserved
Have no resemblance to my days in 1957 last days of steam.
would like to see what is there now, like past and present.
Not much. The loco works has been demolished.
Poorly built houses of questionable value because of contaminated ground concerns.
You could make a real cool simulator with that cab
Inspired music I live in a large town house and nearly jumped out the top window at 06. 46 this morning , because of that music.
The music seems to celebrate the demise of the works
turn the clock back
Its so sad to see at that rail history being scrapped
Some of these diesel locomotives were only 20 years old. A career cut short if you ask me
Quite a sad sight really seeing these great locos going for scrap
No, actually I like locos being scrapped. Crewe did a great job cutting up redundant stock. Now Crewe itself is demolished.
3:46 those cut-up class 40 cabs look like Class 22 cabs with their noses cut off.
47s actually awaiting repair not scrap
No, they were all scrapped and good riddance too, to polluting locomotives. Crewe works itself has also been demolished.
@PreservationEnthusiast You seem to think continuing to burn millions of tonnes of coal was the solution.
At this stage the diesels of the 1950s, 60s and 70s are viewed fondly and rightly so. They are likely more iconic than the steam engines that preceded them.
Oh how I remember Crewe back then 👍🏻
Thank god they scrapped all those electric locos plus the crappy diesels yes oh yes fantastic scene s. God live steam. May it never die. Long live steam.
Steam is king steam rules .