Locomotive Services (LS) Crewe Depot Visit - 25th November 2024

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Nothing can 'STOP' our members; LS Crewe Depot visit, group photo in the sunshine - hard to believe it was the day after Storm Bert.<br>[&copy; Peter Malone 2024]	08631 pulls Deltic D9000 out of the running shed, past the heavy lifting shed. B1 'Mayflower' (right) had worked 'The White Rose' tour two days earlier.<br>[&copy; Peter Malone 2024]	General view of the modern, spacious purpose-built Boiler Shop with its overhead crane (running on extremely broad gauge track).<br>[&copy; Peter Malone 2024]	The main running shed was the original Crewe Diesel Depot, here with D8107 (20107), Peak 45118 'The Royal Artilleryman' and 'The Badger' 89001.<br>[© Peter Malone 2024]	Still inside the former Diesel Depot, 89001, 60532 'Blue Peter' and 45231 'The Sherwood Forrester' - all working locos in museum condition!<br>[&copy; Peter Malone 2024]	Class 45 45118 'Peak' has its running number framed by the air brake hose of 'Blue Peter'.<br>[&copy; Peter Malone 2024]	The workshop area with 6024 'King Edward 1' background left & 47830. 47853 (foreground) has new buffer beam cowling and is masquerading as 47614.<br>[&copy; Peter Malone 2024]
The newly painted 43058 'Loch Eil' HST power car sits on jacks in the workshop waiting for its bogies (seen foreground right in the previous photo).<br>[&copy; Peter Malone 2024]	47953 'Galloway Princess' is in the heavy lifting shed with its roof on the ground beside it.<br>[&copy; Peter Malone 2024]	Members stretch their legs outside the south end of the original diesel depot with two Class 57s to admire (note OHLE in the distance, right).<br>[&copy; Peter Malone 2024]	A view of the former diesel depot conjures up memories of Crewe Diesel Depot in the late 1960s with ex-Brush Class 47s and EE Type 1 on view<br>[&copy; Peter Malone 2024]	LSL electric traction (87002, 90001 and 86101) in matching INTERCITY livery (not hard to 'swallow').<br>[&copy; Peter Malone 2024]