[4] In 1842 the locomotive works opened, and Crewe had become an important railway junction, with lines coming from Birmingham and the south, and then going on to Chester, Manchester, and Liverpool.
Notable educational establishments are the listed Ruskin Road School and a teacher-training college now part of Manchester Metropolitan University.
To provide a place of recreation for the workers, the railway established Queens Park in 1887–88, commissioning Edward Kemp to assist in its design.
[7][a] The listed buildings in the park are its two lodges, a clock tower, and a memorial to those lost in the South African Wars.
[9] In 2020 another war memorial was listed to remember workers from the Crewe tranship shed.