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Crewe

British  
/ kruː /

noun

  1. a town in NW England, in Cheshire: major railway junction. Pop: 67 683 (2001)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Lumo, which is owned by FirstGroup, first warned about a "fault" with the toilets on a service from Stirling to Crewe on Saturday.

From BBC Aug. 7, 2026

According to Network Rail, its operational control boundary spans from Crewe in the south to Carlisle in the north, and from Todmorden in the east to the Welsh border in the west.

From BBC Aug. 6, 2026

Craig is Craig Nicolson, the head of chassis dynamic systems at Bentley Motors, based in Crewe, England.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 18, 2026

The pair later moved from Crewe to Sandbach to be closer to relatives and have enjoyed regular trips to the Canary Islands over the years.

From BBC Jun. 12, 2026

I thought about Sara Crewe in A Little Princess, pretending she is a prisoner in the Bastille to make her work as a scullery maid more bearable.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein

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