Story of a Railway Town

The Story of a Railway Town Crewe celebrated its 150th birthday on 4 July 1987. Not many towns can be so precise, but Crewe can because that was the date in 1837 when the first train of the new Grand Junction Railway ran to Crewe station at the dawn of the railway age. The town followed, growing up around the railway works, and ruled for many years from Euston. Presented by Brian Redhead , with writer Anthony Burton and David Jenkinson of the National Railway Museum, the programme tells the story of Crewe's development into a major engineering centre (the reality behind the music-hall image), with a look at some of the events there at the start of a summer of celebrations - including the return of some famous Crewe-built steam locomotives.