Caption:

A scene like this will never be repeated. This is

Crewe Diesel Depot adjacent to the southern tip of Crewe station in the summer of 1973 and there are at least four classes of diesel locomotive on view. From left are at least two Sulzer Type 2 Class 24s, then two Brush Type 4 Class 47s, a Class 50, another Brush Type 4 Class 47. In a line are an English Electric Type 4 Class 40, another Sulzer Type 2, but a Class 25 and another Brush Type 4 Class 47, then on the right there is another Sulzer Type 2 Class 24 which has inexplicably been painted in duo-green, a livery never applied to any others of the Class. Today there is nothing to see with the completion of WCL electrification, closure of freight routes and the steady take-over of many passenger routes by multiple units.