Visited with @Humpa
History shamefully pinched from Wikipedia:
For some reason despite knowing there was still a relatively large amount of railway stuff dotted around Crewe I'd never actually thought to go and have a look to see if anything was worth a look, so it was a pleasant surprise when @GRONK's report from this place popped up last year. Obviously it was jotted down on the list of things to have a nosey at whilst in the area. I can't really remember now what we were actually looking at on the day we did end up going but I think it was largely a failure!
Easy enough place to get in to thanks to the presence of the demolition contractors, I'd estimate maybe 50% of the place had been turned into a number of massive piles of rubble when we visited - I can only assume that it's completely flat nowadays. It was a nice little hour or so's wander, do always like a nice bit of old industrialness. Plus there were some big old machines and a cool traverser (albeit mangled).
Poor resolution image I found of it back in the steam days with some loco's being built.
One from the 1970's with a Class 86 hanging from the gantry cranes, with a bunch of HST power cars in the back ground.
History shamefully pinched from Wikipedia:
For some reason despite knowing there was still a relatively large amount of railway stuff dotted around Crewe I'd never actually thought to go and have a look to see if anything was worth a look, so it was a pleasant surprise when @GRONK's report from this place popped up last year. Obviously it was jotted down on the list of things to have a nosey at whilst in the area. I can't really remember now what we were actually looking at on the day we did end up going but I think it was largely a failure!
Easy enough place to get in to thanks to the presence of the demolition contractors, I'd estimate maybe 50% of the place had been turned into a number of massive piles of rubble when we visited - I can only assume that it's completely flat nowadays. It was a nice little hour or so's wander, do always like a nice bit of old industrialness. Plus there were some big old machines and a cool traverser (albeit mangled).
Poor resolution image I found of it back in the steam days with some loco's being built.
One from the 1970's with a Class 86 hanging from the gantry cranes, with a bunch of HST power cars in the back ground.
Thanks for looking
