Crewe Works - A Celebration of Steam MD26 Mike Pickering

Mike Pickering

with over 600 photographs

From ‘I am lazy’ to ‘Everybody hates me’ and ‘I quit everything I start’

original and laugh-out-loud funny' – The Times 'This book made my face hurt

Crewe Works - A Celebration of Steam MD26 Mike PickeringLocomotive No 32 Tamerline became the first steam locomotive to be completed at Crewe Works on 10 March 1843. One hundred and fifteen years later BR 9F No 92250 became the 7,331st steam locomotive to be built at the Cheshire works, when completed in December 1958. This publication is a tribute to the thousands of people employed there during the steam locomotive building era. In 1913 The Railway Magazine proudly described Crewe as the most famous