Never mind Independence Day
July 4th is also Crewe Day
This being the date in 1837 on which the Grand Junction Railway opened, between Birmingham and the junction with the Liverpool and Manchester Railway at Newton, and thus the date when the first train stopped at Crewe.
You can read about that momentous occasion here 
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1609083116022572/posts/2853011071629764/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1609083116022572/posts/2853011071629764/ 📷The view looking north from Crewe Station, circa 1848, from a lithograph by Tait.
In the middle distance can be seen the Grand Junction Railway locomotive works and, beyond them, the tower of Christ Church to the left and Liverpool Bridge to the right. Just beyond the station can be seen the first instance of what will become Crewe North Junction, with trackwork connecting the Grand Junction Railway with the Manchester and Birmingham Railway on the right (though by this date both had become constituent parts of the London and North Western Railway). As a later writer observed, the aim of the Grand Junction Railway was “to connect Birmingham with Liverpool and Manchester, and the route chosen neglected all three of the old salt towns of Cheshire and produced a focus of railway communications at Crewe – a place scarcely large enough to merit the name village till the Grand Junction chose it for its locomotive works.” (Hewitt, H. J. (1972). The Building of Railways in Cheshire Down to 1860.) The changes wrought upon this once backwater of Cheshire by the arrival of the railway were profound. Arguably, their impact is still being felt, nearly two centuries later.
C/O: Christelow, M. (2023). The History of Crewe Published by the Crewe Guardian newspaper, 1877-1879. Mpire books