Crewe Heritage Centre

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Starting tomorrow - Thursday 02nd August, the Crewe Heritage centre is holding a 4 day celebration of 47 192 being in preservation for 30 years, along with the resident APT. The following has been lifted from the CHC site:

 

We are holding a four day event from Thursday to Sunday 2nd to 5th August 2018 to commemorate 30 Years since the APT-P and Class 47 D1842 entered preservation at Crewe Heritage Centre. With the recent return of the 2nd APT Power Car, which is now undergoing an external repaint, we now have all the remaining APT-P vehicles at the Heritage Centre once more. We hope to have some of the original APT-P engineers and technicians present over the weekend to talk about their experiences working on the original project.

Our Class 47 D1842/47192 was the first of its class to enter preservation and arrived at the Centre in the autumn of 1988 and is currently in the exhibition hall undergoing bodywork repairs and a full repaint into original two-tone green livery with small yellow panel.

In addition we will have a selection of visiting model railway layouts including 45C Westland and Glasgow Queen Street EM (under construction), plus trade support from D J Models and Kernow Model Rail Centre. There will be displays from HS2, Network Rail and various sales stands including the Woodhead Railway Heritage Group, Class 504 Preservation Society, Ivatt Diesel Re-creation Society and Telford Steam Railway.

We will also have all our regular attractions available including 3 signal boxes, U.S. model railway layouts and 7 1/4 inch gauge miniature railway. Light refreshments will be available in our café and our shop will be open as usual.

On the Saturday and Sunday it is hoped to have a bus shuttle operating between Crewe Station and the Heritage Centre.

 

STOP PRESS: Thanks to Freightliner (UK) and work by members of the 37108 Group we are pleased to announce that Class 47 47830 ‘Beechings Legacy’ will be present on site for all four days of our event.

 

Full details are available on the CHC website here:      https://crewehc.org/