Pictures Dated 15th September 2015

Crewe Station started service on 4 July 1837 with the opening of the Grand Junction Railway

Crewe Station started service on 4 July 1837 with the opening of the Grand Junction Railway. The purpose of this railway was to link the four largest cities of England by joining the existing Liverpool and Manchester Railway with the projected London and Birmingham railway. The line, which was the first long-distance railway in the world, ran from Curzon Street railway station in Birmingham to Dallam in Warrington, Cheshire, where it made an end-on junction with the Warrington and Newton Railway, a branch of the L&M.
At the time of opening Crewe only had 70 residents.

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The Rocket - this locomotive was built by George Stevenson at Newcastle-on-Tyne in

The Rocket - this locomotive was built by George Stevenson at Newcastle-on-Tyne in 1829 to compete for a prize of ?500 offered by the directors of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway Company for the best locomotive which could at that time be produced. Five locomotives by different makers were entered for the competition which was won by the Rocket after what, in those days, were considered very exhaustive and severe tests. The Rocket weighed four and a half tons
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The coffin of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, at Vienna Railway Station. January 30th 1889

The coffin of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, at Vienna Railway Station.
January 30th 1889, found in a hunting lodge at Meyerling, the bodies of the Rodolphe archduke, heir to the Austrian imperial crown, and his mistress, the young person baronne Marie Vetsera. This drama gave place to various assumptions, but the version most usually allowed remains that of double suicide.

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