Edge Hill Works

Edge Hill Works (also called Crown Street works) was the first dedicated locomotive maintenance works of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway. Located at the Liverpool end of the Wapping Tunnel near Edge Hill station, it opened with the railway in 1830 and provided servicing facilities for the locomotives that worked the world's first inter-city passenger railway.

The works was small and primarily a maintenance facility rather than a builder; new construction for the L&MR took place at Robert Stephenson and Company of Newcastle. Edge Hill survived the L&MR's amalgamation into the Grand Junction in 1845 and the LNWR in 1846, but locomotive activity rapidly transferred to the new Crewe Works (1840 and onwards). The Edge Hill site is now a museum and is one of the oldest surviving railway buildings in the world.