Crewe Diesels

Crewe has had diesels and electrics for as long as I can remember, and I have been going there since 1961. The diesel depot, which we used to scamper past on our purposeful trek from the station to Crewe South sheds - often passing with little more than a cursory glance in the early days - was actually a more difficult nut to crack. We got kicked out more than once. I think that they were already rather more covetous of their new traction types than they were about the old steamies that were still lounging around in large numbers on South. By late 1971, however, I was going to Crewe expecting nothing other than diesels and electrics. This time I even photographed a few.