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Drawing Office at Crewe Railway Works
London Midland & Scottish Railway Company, London & North Western Railway, and British Railways, London Midland Region1913
National Railway Museum
York, United Kingdom
From London Midland & Scottish Railway Collection. Drawing office at Crewe railway works, 1913
The drawing office at the London & North Western Railway's Crewe works, 1913. Draughtsmen here worked on the design of locomotives and carriages.
Crewe was one of the most important railway works in Britain and manufactured a huge range of railway equipment, turning raw materials into finished articles. Opened in 1843, the works constructed locomotives, carriages and signalling equipment, and even made soap for cleaning oil stains!
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- Title: Drawing Office at Crewe Railway Works
- Creator: London Midland & Scottish Railway Company, London & North Western Railway, British Railways, London Midland Region
- Date Created: 1913
- Location Created: United Kingdom
- Type: photographs
- Rights: Open Government Licence v3.0
- External Link: https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co423016
- Medium: glass; paper (fibre product)
- Art Genre: Documentary
- Art Form: Photography
- Support: Glass plate negative
- Depicted Location: Crewe Railway Works, United Kingdom
- Depicted Person: Draughtsmen
- Depicted Topic: Drawing office, Locomotives, Carriages
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