Image 47182 & 40011, Crewe Works
47182 & 40011, Crewe Works
47182 & 40011, Crewe Works Undergoing attention in one of Crewe's repair shops, 47182 and 40011 are seen. 47182 was a local steam-heat engine at the time being based at Crewe Dessel. It moved to Bescot in 1982 and then returned to the works for conversion to ETH in 1983 emerging as 47598. 40011 was approaching the end of a four-month stay at the works having what is described as 'camshaft repairs'. I am not at all sure why camshaft repairs took quite this long; I suspect that there may well have been a lot of other work completed too. 40011 only had another eighteen months in-service being withdrawn from traffic at Healey Mills, later removed to and cut up at Swindon. I managed to see it just six weeks prior to its withdrawal on the Settle and Carlisle, see.... https://www.ontheupfast.com/p/21936chg/29725530004/x4-40-011-down-freight-ais-gill-sd773979 Keywords: 47182 40011 Crewe Works
47182 & 40011, Crewe Works Undergoing attention in one of Crewe's repair shops, 47182 and 40011 are seen. 47182 was a local steam-heat engine at the time being based at Crewe Dessel. It moved to Bescot in 1982 and then returned to the works for conversion to ETH in 1983 emerging as 47598. 40011 was approaching the end of a four-month stay at the works having what is described as 'camshaft repairs'. I am not at all sure why camshaft repairs took quite this long; I suspect that there may well have been a lot of other work completed too. 40011 only had another eighteen months in-service being withdrawn from traffic at Healey Mills, later removed to and cut up at Swindon. I managed to see it just six weeks prior to its withdrawal on the Settle and Carlisle, see.... https://www.ontheupfast.com/p/21936chg/29725530004/x4-40-011-down-freight-ais-gill-sd773979 Keywords: 47182 40011 Crewe Works


Undergoing attention in one of Crewe's repair shops, 47182 and 40011 are seen. 47182 was a local steam-heat engine at the time being based at Crewe Dessel. It moved to Bescot in 1982 and then returned to the works for conversion to ETH in 1983 emerging as 47598. 40011 was approaching the end of a four-month stay at the works having what is described as 'camshaft repairs'. I am not at all sure why camshaft repairs took quite this long; I suspect that there may well have been a lot of other work completed too. 40011 only had another eighteen months in-service being withdrawn from traffic at Healey Mills, later removed to and cut up at Swindon. I managed to see it just six weeks prior to its withdrawal on the Settle and Carlisle, see.... https://www.ontheupfast.com/p/21936chg/29725530004/x4-40-011-down-freight-ais-gill-sd773979