Crewe Works The Inside Story Circa 1996 (Full Documentary)

[@jimdieseldawg3435]

Excellent. I live locally and I’m a lifelong enthusiast so the memories are welcomed. “…Safe in the hands of Adtranz…” - well, no. Several housing developments, a Morrisons supermarket, a cinema and a Pizza Hut testify otherwise. How art the mighty fallen.

[@Isochest]

Because everything is for sale in the UK. Putin Xi and even the feral Kim Dynasty of North Korea only have to buy someone!

[@jamesrobert4106]

Where did it all go so wrong?

[@andrewspencer4843]

I started my apprenticeship at Crewe Works when it was ADTranz after leaving school in 1998 before changing to Bombardier. Great days

[@roberthart9246]

Enjoy watching the inside story, I was a driver at Crewe from 1985 and used to go on the works regular to take locos on/off and do test runs to Holyhead . I have some still photos on you tube regarding Crewe Works but mine are of locos been scrapped and views from Eagle Bridge. It was good to see some recognisable steam faces especially Ray Towell with the Duchess of Hamilton who has now sadly passed away always enjoyed his company when working with the N R M collection. It is good to see inside that there are still some dirty jobs to be done, and many clean ones ,but alas it has nearly all gone. Many thanks for sharing this with us.

[@ianmaw66]

Thanks for your comment Robert. My pleasure.

[@kennethhume8628]

This is an extremely interesting video and I enjoyed it immensely .

[@flippop101]

Nice upload, thank you!

[@sianmanfredi8962]

I loved watching this ❣️ I was 3 years old in 1996, maybe I might have even been at that open day toddling around! Ive always been fascinated by my home towns history, something to be proud of!

[@Crewecabking]

and thank the goverment/council for turning it into a housing estate

[@sianmanfredi8962]

@@Crewecabking yeah I was devastated when they knocked down that wall. :( So much history destroyed.

[@Crewecabking]

@@sianmanfredi8962 I’m in the progress of making a railway game on Roblox and I’ve tasked my team to rebuilt crewe works and have it as a part museum and part active works

[@richardhoffmann179]

​@Sian Manfredi it was the end of the workshops and would have required butressing by the developer.

[@jamesrobert4106]

There is very little left to be proud of now. Walking past that wall on West Street as a child was a weekly event.

[@stephensmith4480]

I remember attending this event with a mate of mine, a great day indeed. The Badge of the Royal Tank Regiment is still carried today, on the Tanks as well as the men`s uniform. Brown, Red and Green. Through the Mud and The Blood, to The Green Fields Beyond.

[@barryballsit4944]

Thanks Ian, very informative

[@johnriley4394]

Very interesting video with a lot of steam footage that I for one have not seen before. Some inaccuracies though: as has already being queried, the class 87s were constructed in 1973 and 1974 (perhaps 1975 too). Also, the last steam locomotive built at Crewe was not in 1947. In fact, many of the BR standard classes were built there in the 1950s, the last being a 9F in 1958.

[@stevelomas4119]

“Safe in the hands of Adtranz” Well that didn't age well.

[@jamesrobert4106]

An analogy for the whole country really. We were once a Great Britain until the doors were opened.

[@Crewecabking]

Crewe works is the best locomotive workshop in the entire country it has done this country proud

[@kenlowe3673]

Interesting video but shame about the inaccuracies. They start from 3 mins in, - 6207 seen in the old film was of course a Princess Royal class, - not a Princess Coronation.

[@daystatesniper01]

Brilliant upload really enjoyed it but a tip to the Dukes restoration team ,when she is next returned to stem get rid of those brass numbers

[@steveluckhurst2350]

Imo not any easy documentary to watch. Hurried, full of inaccuracies with too many short scenes. Just my opinion.

[@coastlinersmithy]

10:18 why the APT was scrapped: the tilt mechanism was faulty, hence the car not tilting.

[@djtrainspotter3079]

Nice stuff. But as usual, count the mistakes in narration!

[@brianfearn4246]

Brilliant

[@michaelemery5219]

The birthplace of the HST power cars and some of the westerns eg western lady

[@Nick-ye5kk]

Fascinating, looks like a business in its final years before the work goes abroad though. Hope I'm wrong.

[@richardhoffmann179]

It only does bogie overhauls now.

[@iansankey6320]

The APT was designed and built at Derby

[@nigelbevan8449]

Which turned into a total failure.

[@ilikecheeseilikecheese727]

Is Henry there? 👀

[@PreservationEnthusiast]

Excellent steam loco cutting part starts at 11:50.

[@duncancurtis5971]

Many fine engines went extinct there.

[@PreservationEnthusiast]

@@duncancurtis5971 Yes, but think of the pollution that was stopped by cutting and recycling these locomotives. Now initiatives such as the Alsthom Coradia iLint hydrogen train are giving us clean rail traction without burning fossil fuels.

[@nigelbevan8449]

@@PreservationEnthusiast A lot of the steam locomotives that were scrapped, went for scrap and were never recycled...

[@PreservationEnthusiast]

@@nigelbevan8449 Scrap means recycling. You don't just cut the metal up and leave it lying around. It is dispatched to the foundry to be melted down and *recycled*

[@nigelbevan8449]

@@PreservationEnthusiast Perhaps you can tell me how to recycle the asbestos from a steam locomotive? What I'm saying is, not every part of a steam locomotive was recycled.. Steam engines weren't just made of metal... Or did you not know that?

[@diabolicalartificer]

Sad to see our industrial resource end.What a waste of all that accumulated skill & knowledge . Yes times change, as does requirements and technology, that said our industry & workforce was badly led. As for our political leaders of that time, may they rot in hell.....DA

[@ianmaw66]

I totally agree.

[@diabolicalartificer]

@@ianmaw66 Yep, sad. Crewe works is now a supermarket, shopping & leisure center. Other historic loco manufacturers closed - Derby Works, Vulcan Foundry, Brush Falcon Foundry being the latest. Heaven help us in a war situation, what we going to do import steel and make tanks in our sheds?

[@PreservationEnthusiast]

@@diabolicalartificer Simple. Don't go to war.

[@PreservationEnthusiast]

@Alfred Weber No you are the simple one. Modern warfare is too dangerous. Drones, biological, and chemical attacks can kill large numbers of women and children. Not to mention nuclear weapons. We need to put wars aside. Too many dinosaurs are living with WW2 and Empires in their memory.

[@CosgroveNotts]

Freezing workshops, doors open all the time. Loads of shite jobs. Best job is with the brush

[@medivify]

NEIN

[@peterharrison966]

Looking like Derby Next for the chop, This Country Is Ruined 😡

[@ianmaw66]

I totally agree, sadly.

[@peterharrison966]

@@ianmaw66 , I’m an ex Crewe works man, So seen it first hand, Bulldozed most of it crying shame

[@timothysmith8300]

Iam glad that steam was present it should have been all steam with no deisels crap there at all they spoilt it they should be building steam and only steam locos .

[@steveluckhurst2350]

Based on what? Childish sentiment?

[@PreservationEnthusiast]

@@steveluckhurst2350 Scrap cutting of steam locos starts at 11:40 Great cutting torch action!

[@steveluckhurst2350]

@@PreservationEnthusiast smashing, thank you. Got any links to diesels being cut up? You know, the time expired pieces of garbage which fill the air with unburnt hydrocarbons? I love the sound of fanboi's tears dropping into puddles of oil in the scrapyard!

[@MontyCantsin5]

🥱

[@nigelbevan8449]

@@PreservationEnthusiast And diesel locomotives will be next sunshine... Just go to Toton and see all the class 60s lined up in a neat row...