Late night at Crewe Station
Late Sunday night and Crewe Station is empty and deserted. But there is a lost world here, filled with the ghosts from a bygone era of variety theatre.
Late night at Crewe station. I wander empty dark platforms where rain drips down and fog drifts through the lights. A non-stop London-Glasgow train arrows past with unnerving silence and speed…
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Deak and gloomy – late night at Crewe Station
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Great piece Alex. The Crewe Arms sounds like a place I’d enjoy checking out.
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Thanks! I never quite have enough time to go but the times I have walked past it looks more atmospheric outside than inside. Really must try it one day!
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An excellent piece, and congratulations on being featured in “Elsewhere”. Some of my family come from Crewe, and I have many memories of the station. It is, these days, a depressing wasteland, rather removed from the idea of seamless integrated transport. Hard to imagine how once it was the hub of a vast and efficient system! As a boy, I used to go with my Mum to take my uncle his lunch…he was an engine driver…and my earliest memory, of when I was five, would be of coming down the footbridge and seeing a magnificent “Duchess” locomotive…my uncle was firing that day as the loco was above his pay grade 🙂
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Thanks Iain! Crewe station is a bit depressing but I’ve taken a strange liking to it having spent so many hours waiting for trains over the years. It certainly seems a long way from the digital, integrated transport of the future. Thanks for the lovely family memories – a train driving uncle must have been fascinating to a five year old boy!
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Absolutely love your writings! Very unique and never a dull read.
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Thank you for such wonderful comments! As I have to entertain and interest myself when I am writing I can never be sure if others will enjoy it. So it’s great to hear about it when they do!
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Tell me about it… I’ve been here only 3 days and people are really accepting my writings too!
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