名車じゃなくて迷車だらけ？ 英国鉄道の町『クルー』の保存車両たち【#迷列車で行こう海外編 】

Crewe is one of Britain’s great railway towns — but its heritage centre is not just full of famous trains. At Crewe Heritage Centre, we explore preserved vehicles with strange, troubled and surprisingly interesting stories, including the APT-P, HST Class 43 and Class 91. From one of the world’s largest railway works to some of Britain’s most unusual preserved trains, this is a deep dive into Crewe’s railway history. Previous video    • リニューアルした英国鉄道博物館へ。日立ハイブリッド試験車にも遭遇【#迷列車で行こう海...   Thank you for watching the Yukkuri Utagekidan's Railway Journey. Thank you for watching our railway travel series. This time, we visit Crewe, a railway town in Cheshire, England. Crewe became an important railway town in the 19th century. It sits at a key position between London and Birmingham to the south, Liverpool and Manchester to the north, and Wales to the west. This made Crewe an important junction for both passengers and freight. But Crewe did not become a railway town simply because trains passed through it. It was also home to Crewe Works, one of the most important railway engineering sites in Britain. If Shildon was famous for building wagons, Crewe became famous for building locomotives. Crewe Works stretched for almost four kilometres, and at its peak in the 1930s it was described as one of the largest railway works in the world. The railway did not just serve the town — in many ways, it built the town. Housing, schools, churches, water supplies and gas facilities were developed to support the workers and their families. Crewe became a town shaped by the railway industry. After the Second World War, Crewe Works continued to produce important vehicles for British Rail. In the 1970s, it built power cars for the legendary HST, officially the Class 43. Later, it also produced the Class 91 electric locomotives for the InterCity 225 trains on the East Coast Main Line. However, the huge works that once defined the town has mostly disappeared. Much of the land has been sold and redeveloped, and the remaining facilities are now used mainly for maintenance rather than new vehicle construction. But Crewe’s railway story has not vanished. On part of the former works site stands Crewe Heritage Centre, a museum dedicated to the town’s railway industry. The centre has plenty to see: preserved railway vehicles, signal boxes that feel like something from the world of Thomas & Friends, model railway layouts, and exhibits connected with Crewe’s role in British railway history. But what makes this museum especially interesting is that many of its preserved vehicles are not simply “famous trains”. They are unusual, complicated, sometimes troubled vehicles with stories that are far more interesting than they first appear. Among them is the Class 370 APT-P, one of British Rail’s most ambitious but troubled high-speed train projects. There are also vehicles connected with the HST, which was originally intended as a stopgap but became one of Britain’s greatest railway successes. Since 2020, the collection has become even more interesting, with the arrival of vehicles such as an HST Class 43 power car and a Class 91 locomotive from the InterCity 225 fleet. Both look like famous British trains at first glance — but each has a surprisingly unusual story behind it. In this video, we explore Crewe Heritage Centre, the legacy of Crewe Works, and the preserved vehicles that make this museum one of the most interesting railway sites in Britain. Are they famous trains, or strange trains? Let’s take a closer look. Off-shots and detailed images of the vehicles featured in the video are available on Instagram.   / yukuri403   0:00 Famous trains, or strange trains? 0:36 Crewe, Britain’s railway town 2:29 Crewe Works: one of the world’s largest railway works 4:18 Visiting Crewe Heritage Centre 6:48 British Rail’s troubled high-speed project: Class 370 APT-P 8:29 HST: the temporary solution that became a legend 11:46 The story of preserved Class 43 power car 43118 14:12 Crewe Works’ 8,000th locomotive 15:37 Why early HST power cars had small windows 17:33 Class 91: another express locomotive built at Crewe 18:30 The popular InterCity Swallow livery 19:59 Japan’s “Tsubame” and Britain’s “Swallow” 21:28 The unusual fate of Class 91 locomotive 91120 24:56 From railway history to the future — next time #SlowExplanation #Railway #UK #SlowSingingGroup #OverseasTravel #Eurostar #Germany #Railjet #HighSpeedRailway #RailwayHistory #RailwayExplanation #RailwayVideo #RailwayJourney #LetsGoOnMysteriousTrains #LukaTravels #EuropeanTrains #Deutschebahn #Railway #TrainVlog #TrainJourney #Siemens