With E3018, photos of Westerns at Crewe are not common and this one would become the rarest of them all.

Colin Moss says "This is actually a booked working ( M - F ) OOC diagram 7 & 8. From the Summer timetable 1963 until May 1964, that timetable saw an amended, less wasteful diagram, go over to Brush Type 4. 1O35 is the southbound "Pines Express" the 10.00 Manchester P. - Bournemouth W. The Western has worked the previous day's northbound service from Oxford via Birmingham Snow Hill/Wolverhampton Low Level and Shrewsbury thence via Whitchurch and Nantwich to Crewe. It was stabled on Crewe Diesel overnight, then taking over as per this photo. A list of how many of the class worked this diagram would be interesting indeed."