Grand Junction - Crewe, Cheshire, UK.
N 53° 05.945 W 002° 26.461
30U E 537427 N 5883438
The Grand Junction is located on Heath Street in the centre of Crewe.
Waymark Code: WMX8C0
Location: North West England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 12/12/2017
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Grand Junction is a town pub located next to the entrance to The Market Shopping Centre. This modern town centre open plan pub had a major internal refurbishment in July 2016.
The hanging pub sign has a black and white picture of a steam train number 48133. The pub name is written in white lettering at the bottom of the sign.
This is Craft Union Free House owned by Craft Union Pub Co (Enterprise Inns).
This large pub offers traditional pub games, live music and Wifi.
There is a smoking area, a pub garden and a small pub car park to the rear and a large function room upstairs.
The Grand Junction pub is probably named after the Grand Junction Railway (GJR). Until the Grand Junction Railway company chose Crewe as the site for its locomotive works and railway station in the late 1830s, Crewe was a village with a population (c. 1831) of just 70 residents.
The Grand Junction (GJR) was an early railway company in the United Kingdom, which existed between 1833 and 1846 when it was amalgamated with other railways to form the London and North Western Railway. The line built by the company was the first trunk railway to be completed in England, and arguably the world's first long-distance railway with steam traction. Source: (
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Information about British Railway Steam Locomotive 48133 (seen on the pub sign) can be found at the following link. (
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