BR standard classes, and Crewe built Britannia and Clan mixed traffic engines and some of the Class 9 freight locomotives. The last steam locomotive built at Crewe, Class 9 number 92250, was completed in December 1958. Crewe Works built 7,331 steam locomotives. Diesel production commenced, with D5030 the first main line example completed in 1959. The final diesel locomotives built at Crewe Works were the Class 56 with the last completed in 1984, while the final class of electric locomotives were the Class 91 with the last completed in 1991. Modern ownership Crewe Works became a part of British Rail Engineering Limited when the former BR Workshops were set up as a separate business in 1969 and was privatised in 1989. In the mid 1980s, much of the Crewe Works site was cleared and sold for major redevelopment. Around this time, British Rail Engineering Limited was sold to ASEA Brown-Boveri, which merged with Daimler Benz in 1996 to form Adtranz. Adtranz was itself taken over by Bombardier in 2001. Via the sale of Bombardier Transportation to Alstom in January 2021 the plant became part of Alstom UK & Ireland. At its height, Crewe Works employed between 7,000 and 8,000 people; in 2005 fewer than 1,000 remained on site, with a further 270 redundancies announced in November of that year and more cutbacks or even closure possible. Current work is largely focused on general maintenance and the inspection of seriously damaged stock. Much of the site once occupied by the works has been sold off and is now occupied by a supermarket, leisure park and a large new health centre. In 2019 another part of Crewe Works was demolished for a new housing estate. In December 2021 the contract for delivery of HS2 rolling stock was awarded to a partnership between Hitachi Rail and Alstom. Alstom’s share in manufacturing of the 54 trains will take place at Derby Litchurch Lane Works and Crewe Works. All the bogies, which house the wheelsets, will be both assembled and maintained at Alstom's Crewe facility. Manufacturing is expected to start in 2025. Notes Citations Bibliography * External links Locomotive manufacturers of the United Kingdom Railway workshops in Great Britain Buildings and structures in Crewe Bombardier Transportation