Caption:

The passengers on the previous page need wait no longer

as their train has come to a stand in the platform at Crewe. According to the station clock this train, 1A58, the 1355 Saturdays only from Barrow-in-Furness to London Euston has taken about three hours to reach this point where the English Electric Type 4 Class 40, number 342, later 40142 is about to be replaced by an electric loco which will dash up to London at noticeably higher speeds for the passengers.