Stories around our network

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Bringing more trains to West Yorkshire
Published 12 June 2025
| Average read time 4 min read

Stories
Planned engineering works
Why drainage is essential to our planned engineering works
11 June 2025 | 3 min read
You may be familiar with engineering works like track renewals, signalling upgrades and electrification. But less visible work – like…

Stories
Railway heritage
Read the George Stephenson notebook online
9 June 2025 | 3 min read
Network Rail is proud to share one of the railway’s most historically important artefacts with the world. The rediscovery in 2018 of…

From the archive: WWII and the railway
6 June 2025 | 3 min read

The Railway at War – 1939-1945
6 June 2025 | 5 min read

Improving London Liverpool Street
3 June 2025 | 3 min read

Going solar for a greener railway
30 May 2025 | 3 min read