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Posted: 15-12-2010 17:11 Post subject:

Can't believe I've somehow missed this thread.

Back in 2001(?) I got stuck at Crewe station and had missed my connection to the South, and take it from me, Crewe isn't a pretty little country type station with a log fire burning in the waiting room. Me and a student mate slept on a bench just off the platform. I say slept, we ate chocolate to keep us warm all night and chatted until the first train back to Cardiff at around 6-7am.

As per usual though (it's becoming a sad trend) I failed to witness anything remotely paranormal, I also wasn't aware it had any ghostly connections.

Posted: 15-12-2010 17:19 Post subject:

What a shame you couldn't give me a bell. I'd have whisked you off for a nice pint'n'pie supper and stuck you on my sofa for the night. Very Happy

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Posted: 15-12-2010 20:37 Post subject:

I had a houseful of stinky students back then. A couple more wouldn;t have hurt. Laughing

Posted: 15-12-2010 23:55 Post subject:

Um, are we talking about "a houseful of stinky students" in a Jeffrey Dahmer/Dennis Nilsen etc etc kinda way?

Sounds like a lucky escape to me.

Wink

Posted: 16-12-2010 00:27 Post subject:

Cheeky.

I'm not common. I have a patio. Laughing

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Posted: 16-12-2010 07:50 Post subject:

Curses. Yer got me bang ter rights there, guv'nor! Laughing

Posted: 16-12-2010 12:15 Post subject:

Do we get to finish our pie n pint before you butcher us ?

Posted: 16-12-2010 12:22 Post subject:

Depends on the time of year. I have been known to force-feed students pie'n'mash, in the run-up to xmas. Gives a pleasant foie gras touch to the Yuletide board. Twisted Evil

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Posted: 19-12-2010 10:01 Post subject:

There're several service tunnels under Crewe station leading from platform to platform, for moving goods and post smoothly between trains.

When I worked on the Post Office there 30-odd years ago I got to know them quite well. There was a well-lit main one from the main Royal Mail sorting office next door and a couple of platform-to-platform ones.

One led off into darkness and I was told that it wasn't used any more. Nobody seemed interested in where it went.
As I remember, it was at right angles to the 'platform' tunnels and was at the top end of the station opposite the Arms so I wonder if that was the hotel one?

It'd make sense to have a tunnel between the station and hotel for the posher guests, such as Queen Victoria.

Posted: 20-12-2010 21:05 Post subject:

Coming from the direction on Nantwich Road you can peek over the wall of the Arms just as you come over the bridge and see a an area that apears tom have no use and looks like it leads to a tunnel..

http://www.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=crewe+arms+hotel&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=12.344606,28.256836&ie=UTF8&hq=crewe+arms+hotel&hnear=&ll=53.089936,-2.432587&spn=0.000765,0.001725&t=h&z=19&iwloc=C&layer=c&cbll=53.089908,-2.432716&panoid=Y8rxHprTMkl2eSsocJS-XA&cbp=12,338.36,,0,4.86

Its that brick box dead ahead - the one the overlaps the left hand side of the hotel. Sadly the wall is quite tall, so unless you've well over 6ft you probably will not see over it Sad

EDIT: Take a step to the left - Google insists on re-drawing the screen even though the link does refer to the correct view...