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CREWE , a municipal See also:

borough in the Crewe See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Cheshire, See also:England, 158 m. N.W. of See also:London, on the See also:main See also:line of the London & See also:North-Western railway. Pop. (1901) 42,074. The See also:town was built on an See also:estate called See also:Oak See also:Farm in the See also:parish of See also:Monk's Coppenhall, and takes its name from the See also:original stations having been placed in the township of Crewe, in which the seat of See also:Lord Crewe is situated. It is a railway junction where lines converge from London, See also:Manchester, North See also:Wales and See also:Holyhead, North See also:Stafford and See also:Hereford. It is inhabited principally by persons in the employment of the London & North-Western railway See also:company, and was practically created by that See also:corporation, at a point where in 1841 only a farmhouse stood in open See also:country. Crewe is not only one of the busiest railway stations in the See also:world, but is the See also:locomotive See also:metropolis of the London & North-Western company, which has centred here enormous workshops for the manufacture of the material and plant used in See also:railways. In 1901 the 4000th locomotive was turned out of the See also:works. A See also:series of subterranean ways extending many See also:miles have been constructed to enable merchandise See also:traffic to pass through without interfering with passenger trains on the See also:surface railways. The company possesses one of the finest electric stations in the world, and See also:electrical apparatus for the working of See also:train signals is in operation. The station is fitted with an extensive See also:suite of offices for the interchange of postal traffic, the See also:chief mails to and from See also:Ireland and See also:Scotland being stopped here and arranged for various distributing centres.

Its enormous railway facilities and its See also:

geographical situation as the junction of the See also:great See also:trunk lines See also:running north and See also:south, tapping also the See also:Staffordshire See also:potteries on the one See also:side and the great See also:mineral districts of Wales on the other, constitute Crewe station one of the most important links of railway and postal communication in the See also:kingdom. The railway company built its See also:principal See also:schools, provided it with a See also:mechanics' See also:institute, containing library, See also:science and See also:art classes, See also:reading rooms, See also:assembly rooms, &c. See also:Victoria See also:Park, also the See also:gift of the company, was opened in 1888. The municipal corporation built the technical school and school of art. The borough incorporated in 1877, is under a See also:mayor, 7 aldermen and 21 councillors. See also:Area, 2185 acres.

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