Crewe Collection

Made:
1875 to 1933
Breakdown train, about 1910 Lighting equipment, about 1910 Coaling plant, about 1910 Coal mine at Hednesford, about 1910 Euston Hotel, 1884 Parcel delivery van, about 1910 Permanent way workers, about 1910 Euston station arch, about 1910 Queen's Park, Crewe, 1890 Tipping a coal wagon 1911 Superintendent's house, Wolverton, 1885 Loch Tay station, about 1900 Horse drawn omnibus, 1904 Construction of Stalbridge Dock, about 1908 London & North Western Railway offices, about 1900 London & North Western Railway offices, about 1900 Wagons in a coal yard, about 1900 Inside North Wall station, Dublin, 1886 North Western Hotel at North Wall, Dublin, May 1886. 2-4-0 locomotive and train at Boxmoor, 1897 Euston to Glasgow train, 1913 2-4-0 locomotive and train at Wolverton Works, 1893 Euston to Glasgow train, 1913 4-4-0 locomotive and train, 1897 2-4-2 locomotive and train at Whitmore, 1895 Construction at Liverpool Lime Street Station, 1881

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Breakdown train, about 1910
Science Museum Group Collection
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Lighting equipment, about 1910
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Coaling plant, about 1910
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Coal mine at Hednesford, about 1910
Science Museum Group Collection
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Euston Hotel, 1884
Science Museum Group Collection
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Parcel delivery van, about 1910
Science Museum Group Collection
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Permanent way workers, about 1910
Science Museum Group Collection
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Euston station arch, about 1910
Science Museum Group Collection
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Queen's Park, Crewe, 1890
Science Museum Group Collection
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Tipping a coal wagon 1911
Science Museum Group Collection
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Superintendent's house, Wolverton, 1885
Science Museum Group Collection
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Loch Tay station, about 1900
Science Museum Group Collection
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Horse drawn omnibus, 1904
Science Museum Group Collection
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Construction of Stalbridge Dock, about 1908
Science Museum Group Collection
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London & North Western Railway offices, about 1900
Science Museum Group Collection
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London & North Western Railway offices, about 1900
Science Museum Group Collection
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Wagons in a coal yard, about 1900
Science Museum Group Collection
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Inside North Wall station, Dublin, 1886
Science Museum Group Collection
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North Western Hotel at North Wall, Dublin, May 1886.
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2-4-0 locomotive and train at Boxmoor, 1897
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Euston to Glasgow train, 1913
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2-4-0 locomotive and train at Wolverton Works, 1893
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Euston to Glasgow train, 1913
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4-4-0 locomotive and train, 1897
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2-4-2 locomotive and train at Whitmore, 1895
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Construction at Liverpool Lime Street Station, 1881
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Photographs, a collection of approximately 2,465 silver gelatin glass negatives, 6½ x 4¾ to 20 x 16 ins, from the Crewe Works A,B,C,D,E,F,MA,MC, MD series, featuring locomotives, workshops personalities and events of the London & North Western Railway and the London Midland & Scottish Railway. Includes two negative registers for A to E Series, one numerical, one alphabetical.

The Crewe Collection contains silver gelatin glass negatives from Crewe Works. The London & North Western Railway was very publicity conscious, and employed photographers at Crewe Works from the 1870s onwards.

This wide-ranging collection includes views of completed engines and rolling stock, workers, workshop scenes with detailed views of manufacturing processes, special visits, publicity events, stations, signalling, civil engineering and maritime scenes.

Crewe Locomotive Works was built in 1843 for the Grand Junction Railway and was taken over by the London & North Western Railway three years later. The largest railway-owned works in the world at the time, Crewe was based on a company town, with the L&NWR providing its own housing, gasworks, water supply, park, sports grounds, and even an Anglican church. The works was at the forefront of new technology, one of the first to introduce machine tools and a pioneer of the Bessemer steel process. By 1900, 4000 engines had already been built at Crewe. In 1888 a world record had been established there, when the 0-6-0 freight locomotive No. 2153 was assembled in only 25 1/2 hours.

On Grouping in 1923 Crewe Works was taken over by the London Midland & Scottish Railway. During the Second World War armaments were also manufactured at Crewe, including Covenanter tanks and artillery components. The works was modernised in the 1960s and High Speed Train power cars were produced at Crewe in the 1970s, together with the Class 87 electric. In 1989 the works was privatised as part of BREL Ltd.

Details

Category:
Photographic Collections (Railway)
Object Number:
1996-7316
type:
photographs
credit:
British Railways Board