I saw that video and commented on this one or the companion, I can't remember.
I was thru Crewe in 1985 on a trip to Liverpool to research information, with my grandmother in tow, on my great, great, grandmother who was born there. Unfortunately there were no records to be had because the church was destroyed in WWII. She inherited the equivalent of $21 million back in the 1920s, but refused to go back to England to collect the inheritance! The Boston Record American, Globe, and other newspapers were willing to pay her passage, but nope she refused because she made her bread and butter in America! Sighs!
But anyway I got to have an awesome train trip from Euston to Liverpool Lime Street. The approaches to that station and the station its self still fascinate me with all the hand-cutting, bridges, and portals. The way the station lights up everything at the end of the approach is as if there's a grand palace on the very end of a dark journey through the tunnels.
What was interesting in 1985 was Crewe Jct. was completely devoid of tracks as the junction was being rebuilt. The train we took ran through on a temporary connection from one of the bypass lines and we continued our journey about an hour late because we had delays due to the trackwork.
You were lucky to have a neighbour like that who will take you along. I'm not so lucky over here. I do the same with Google Earth!