Monument record 2521/1/51 - Crewe LNWR Goods Shed

<1> Ordnance Survey, 1909-1912, Ordnance Survey Second Revision County Series (Epoch 3) 25 inch to 1 mile - Cheshire, SJ7153, 1910 (Maps and Plans). SCH4361.

The first depiction of the goods shed on Ordnance Survey maps. The map depicts a rectangular building with six tracks passing though it. Four capstans are depicted at either end of the building (adjacent to the tracks). The railway tracks to the south-east of the building includes four additional parallel tracks and the associated points; presumably to aid the shunting of wagons and vans.

<2> National Remote Sensing Centre Ltd, 1992-3, National Remote Sensing Centre County Survey (1992-1993), Line 24, No.135, 23/08/1993 (Aerial Photograph). SCH5297.

The last aerial photograph to depict the building prior to demolition. Visible are four parallel pitched roofs aligned north-west to south-east. The railway tracks have been removed.

<3> Minnis J & Hickman S, 2016, The Railway Goods Shed and Warehouse in England, p.64 (Book). SCH8250.

Possibly the transhipment shed referred to in this source. This was '...a shed where goods, instead of being brought by local merchants for transport by rail or deposited for them to collect or be delivered, were transferred from one wagon to another as part of a lengthy journey across the country, with part loads being placed together in wagons to ensure that when the train left it comprised full loads'.