🚂 Crewe Works: The Beating Heart of Britain’s Railways 🚂 For over a century, Crewe Works stood at the very centre of Britain’s railway story. From the mighty Duchess Pacifics to the first BR Standard, 70000 Britannia, and the troubled Duke of Gloucester, some of the most famous locomotives ever built rolled out of this incredible complex. Alongside the great works stood the lost sheds of Crewe North and Crewe South — once alive with Jubilees, Britannias, and Duchesses, and magnets for trainspo

🚂 We’re celebrating 180 years of Crewe Railway Works. Here’s a nostalgic view on why a change at Crewe is as ‘inevitable as a change of socks’ 🧦 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0g305mc BBC North West | BBC Stoke & Staffordshire